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Nuthetes

Reptilia - 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) and Steel (1970); it was considered a nomen dubium by Holtz et al. (2004).

It was assigned to Crocodilia by Owen (1879) and Damon (1884); to Dinosauria by Lydekker (1888); to Lacertilia by Owen (1854), Owen (1861), Owen (1861) and Mansel-Pleydell (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) and 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) and Allain et al. (2022).

Species

N. destructor (type species)

Synonymy list

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

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
infraorder	Deinonychosauria
family	Dromaeosauridae
genus	Nuthetes	Owen 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

Reference	Diagnosis
J. B. Delair 1960	Teeth 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.