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Rugops
Carnivore
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There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Rugops (Echkar), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.
Spinostropheus
Cretaceous
Carcharodontosaurus
Cretaceous
Spinosaurus
Cretaceous
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Abelisauridae
- When it lived
- 93.9–100.5 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Cenomanian
- Named by
- Sereno et al., 2004
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- Niger
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata