Nuthetes destructor
"one who admonishes"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nuthetes 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (143 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · France · United Kingdom
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dromaeosauridae Dinosauria Saurischia Theropoda Coelurosauria Sickle-clawed raptors: Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor.
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 (Early Cretaceous) 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.
What we know
- Named by Owen, 1854.
- Fossils found in Asia and France.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Nuthetes — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.