Nuthetes
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| Nuthetes Fossil range: Early Cretaceous |
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| Nuthetes destructor Owen, 1854 |
Nuthetes is the name given to a dubious genus of reptile thought (by some) to be a dinosaur. The fossils are fragmentary, consisting mostly of jaw fragments and teeth. It has been variously classified as a lizard, juvenile megalosaur, and, most recently, a dromaeosaurid (Milner, 2002). Whatever it was, it lived in Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) England. If it was a dromaeosaur, it would have been one of the first known.
The type species, Nuthetes destructor, was described by Owen in 1854.
[edit] References
- Milner, A. (2002). Theropod dinosaurs of the Purbeck Limestone Group, southern England. In: Milner and Batten (eds.). Life and Environment in Purbeck Times. Special Paper in Palaeontology 68(268):191-201.
[edit] External links
- Extensive description from the Milner paper, on the Dinosaur Mailing List.
- Described as a lizard
- Described as a dromaeosaurid
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