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Rugops
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Rugops is known from an almost complete skull. The skull is relatively delicate, suggesting that this was a scavenger, not an attacking dinosaur like Tyrannosaurus. Rows of holes in the skull may indicate that it had a crest of some kind.
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- Pronounced
- roo-gops
- Meaning of name
- wrinkle face
- Length
- 7m
- Diet
- carnivorous
- When it lived
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Late Cretaceous
(95 million years ago) - Found in
- Niger
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Ceratosauria, Neoceratosauria, Abelisauridae, Rugops
- Named by
- Sereno, Wilson and Conrad (2004)
- Type species
- primus