Kryptops
Sign in to saveKryptops (meaning "covered face") is an extinct genus of possibly chimeric abelisaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Niger. It is known from a partial maxilla (upper jaw bone) found at the Gadoufaoua locality in the western Ténéré Desert, in rocks of the Aptian–Albian-age Elrhaz Formation. The fossils were collected in 2000 by a University of Chicago expedition to Niger led by American paleontologist Paul Sereno. They were then described in 2008 by Sereno and Steve Brusatte. The genus contains a single species, Kryptops palaios. Sereno and Brusatte referred several postcrania
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- Parent taxon
- Abelisauridae
- Image
- Kryptops bones BW.jpg
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- Kryptops
- time period
- Early Cretaceous
- taxon name
- Kryptops
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