Outline: a typical theropod
Nuthetes
"monitor"
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
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
140 million years ago
Field notes
About Nuthetes
What it was like
Nuthetes is known from small, blade-like teeth and a piece of jaw. The teeth belonged to a small theropod, perhaps a dromaeosaur or an early tyrannosaur relative.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now England. It comes from the Lulworth Formation, where it lived beside the small plant eaters Echinodon and Owenodon.
How it was found
Owen named Nuthetes in 1854. The type species is Nuthetes destructor. Owen first thought the jaw belonged to a lizard. If it is a dromaeosaur, it was one of the first ever named.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Dromaeosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: A. S. Romer. 1956. Osteology of the Reptiles, University of Chicago Press