Genus
Valid Extinct

Nuthetes

Owen 1854

Nuthetes is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur, either a dromaeosaurid or tyrannosauroid, known only from fossil teeth and jaw fragments found in rocks of the middle Berriasian age in the Cherty Freshwater Member of the Lulworth Formation in England and also the Angeac-Charente bonebed in France. If it was a dromaeosaurid, Nuthetes would have been a small predator.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
7
Group
Dinosaures
Carnivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Nuthetes
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Genus—Nuthetes. (Lacertilia). Fig. 13 and 14. Portions of mandible and teeth of Nuthetes destructor. Fig. 15. Five detached teeth of do. Fig. 16. Side view of crown of a tooth of do., magn. © H. Olson · Public domain · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Theropoda Unranked clade
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Neotheropoda Unranked clade
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Averostra Unranked clade
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Tetanurae Unranked clade
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Coelurosauria Unranked clade
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Maniraptora Unranked clade
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Paraves Unranked clade
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Deinonychosauria Infraorder
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Dromaeosauridae Family
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Nuthetes Genus
Fossil sites 7 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5
🇫🇷 France
2
Geological formations
Lulworth
4
Temporal distribution
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
7
Species (1)
Nuthetes destructor 143 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
A. S. Romer. 1956. Osteology of the Reptiles, University of Chicago Press
Bibliography (7)
R. Allain, R. Vullo, and L. Rozada, J. Anquetin, R. Bourgeais, J. Goedert, M. Lasseron, J. E. Martin, A. Pérez-García, C. Peyre De Fabrègues, R. Royo-Torres, D. Augier, G. Bailly, L. Cazes, Y. Despres, A. Gailliègue, B. Gomez, F. Goussard, T. Lenglet, R. Vacant, Mazan, J.-F. Tour. 2022. Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J/K boundary. Geodiversitas 44(25):683-752 DOI ↗
J. Pouech, J.-M. Mazin, and J.-P. Billon-Bruyat. 2006. Microvertebrate biodiversity from Cherves-de-Cognac (Lower Cretaceous, Berriasian: Charente, France). 9th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstracts and Proceedings Volume
A. C. Milner. 2002. Theropod dinosaurs of the Purbeck Limestone Group, southern England. In A. R. Milner & D. J. Batten (eds.), Life and Environments in Purbeck Times. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68:191-201
P. C. Ensom. 1988. Excavations at Sunnydown Farm, Langton Matravers, Dorset: amphibians discovered in the Purbeck Limestone Formation. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 109:148-150
P. C. Ensom. 1987. A remarkable new vertebrate site in the Purbeck Limestone Formation on the Isle of Purbeck. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 108:205-206
W. H. Hudleston. 1876. Excursion to Swindon and Faringdon. June 5th (Whit-Monday), and following day. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 4:543-554 DOI ↗
R. Owen. 1854. On some fossil reptilian and mammalian remains from the Purbecks. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:420-433 DOI ↗