Nuthetes
Field photograph to come
Nuthetes
DV-0014 · type species Nuthetes destructor
- Lived
- 143 to 137 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Dromaeosauridae
- Found in
- United Kingdom and France
- Named by
- Owen 1854
Field notes
About Nuthetes
Nuthetes was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 143 to 137 million years ago. It belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 4 finds of Nuthetes, from United Kingdom and France. Its fossils come from the Lulworth Formation. It was named by Owen in 1854.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
140 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: A. S. Romer. 1956. Osteology of the Reptiles, University of Chicago Press