Nuthetes

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 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.

Nuthetes

H. Olson · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DromaeosauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Dromaeosauridae

Time the record covers

At most 6.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.6 Mya136.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Nuthetes on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

7 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Lulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°W

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The named rock units Nuthetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuthetes and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Nuthetes and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Nuthetes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Nuthetes

Credit
H. Olson
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDromaeosauridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1854