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Nuthetes

Osteichthyes - Dromaeosauridae

Taxonomy
Nuthetes was named by Owen (1854). Its type is Nuthetes destructor.

It was synonymized subjectively with Megalosaurus by Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Steel (1970); it was considered a nomen dubium by Holtz et al. (2004).

It was assigned to Crocodilia by Owen (1879), Damon (1884); to Lacertilia by Owen (1854), Owen (1861), Owen (1861), Mansel-Pleydell (1888); to Dinosauria by Lydekker (1888); to Saurischia by Seeley (1893); to Megalosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Coeluridae by von Zittel (1911); to Megalosauridae by Zittel (1890), Van Den Broeck (1900), Chakravarti (1935), Delair (1960); to Carnosauria by Delair (1973); to Velociraptorinae by Knoll and Ruiz-Omeñaca (2009); and to Dromaeosauridae by Milner (2002), Naish and Martill (2007), Benson and Barrett (2009), Allain et al. (2022).

Species
N. destructor (type species)
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2005-07-05; modified by M. Carrano on 2021-04-21

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Nuthetes Owen p. 420
1861Nuthetes Owen p. 31
1879Nuthetes Owen p. 16
1884Nuthetes Damon p. 211
1888Nuthetes Lydekker p. 247
1888Nuthetes Mansel-Pleydell p. 7
1890Nuthetes Zittel p. 727
1893Nuthetes Seeley p. 228
1900Nuthetes Van Den Broeck p. 84
1901Nuthetes Nopcsa p. 201
1911Nuthetes von Zittel p. 281
1935Nuthetes Chakravarti p. 141
1960Nuthetes Delair p. 79
1973Nuthetes Delair p. 3
2002Nuthetes Milner p. 192
2007Nuthetes Naish and Martill p. 495
2009Nuthetes Benson and Barrett p. 142
2009Nuthetes Knoll and Ruiz-Omeñaca p. 610
2022Nuthetes Allain et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
infraorderDeinonychosauria
familyDromaeosauridae
genusNuthetesOwen 1854

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Nuthetes Owen 1854
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†Nuthetes destructor Owen 1854
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. B. Delair 1960Teeth of the same general type, though much smaller, of Megalosaurus; not implanted in separate alveoli, and partly anchylosed to the side of the jaw. Jaw relatively slender in proportion to its length. Other characters unknown.