Re: Nuthetes and other Purbeck theropods

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Mickey Mortimer wrote:

> Nuthetes Owen 1854
> N. destructor Owen 1854

Does anybody know what the name "_Nuthetes_" actually means?

> Further work may show Richardoestesia to be related to deinonychosaurs, 
> perhaps near the base of
> the clade, which could involve the proposed connection to Paronychodon and 
> birds (Sankey et al., 2002; Rauhut, 2002).

Intriguingly, _Nuthetes_ and _Richardoestesia_ could even be basal birds.



Tim

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