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Nuthetes
''Nuthetes'' is the name given to a dubious, possibly dromaeosaurid, genus of theropod dinosaur, known only from fossil teeth and jaw fragments found in rocks of the middle Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) age in the Cherty Freshwater Member of the Lulworth Formation in England. As a dromaeosaurid ''Nuthetes'' would have been a small predator, about two metres long.
==Naming==
The genus ''Nuthetes'' contains one species (the type species), ''Nuthetes destructor''. ''N. destructor'' was named and described by Richard Owen in 1854.〔Owen, R., 1854, "On some fossil reptilian and mammalian remains from the Purbecks", ''Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London'', 10: 420-43〕 The generic name ''Nuthetes'' is derived from the Koine Greek ''nouthetes'', a contraction of νουθέτητης (''nouthetetes'') meaning "one who admonishes" or "a monitor," in reference to the similarity of ''Nuthetes'' teeth to those of a modern monitor lizard.〔Glut, D.F. (2002). ''Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia Supplement 2.'' McFarland & Company, 686 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-1166-5〕 The specific name is Latin for "destroyer", a reference to "the adaptations of the teeth for piercing, cutting, and lacerating the prey" of a form he estimated to be equal in size to the present Bengal monitor.〔Owen, R., 1861, "Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck formations. Part V. Lacertilia (''Nuthetes'', etc.)", ''The Palaeontological Society, London'' 1858: 31-39〕
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