- Type of dinosaur:
- large theropod
- Length:
- 7.0m
- Diet:
- carnivorous
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 95 million years ago
- Found in:
- Niger
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.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Ceratosauria, Abelisauridae
- Named by:
- Sereno, Wilson and Conrad (2004)
- Type species:
- primus
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