Kryptops
Field photograph to come
Kryptops
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- Lived
- 121 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Abelisauridae
- Found in
- Niger
- Named by
- Sereno and Brusatte 2008
Field notes
About Kryptops
Kryptops was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 121 to 101 million years ago. It belongs to the family Abelisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Kryptops, from Niger. Its fossils come from the Elrhaz Formation. It was named by Sereno and Brusatte in 2008.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
110 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Abelisauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. C. Sereno and S. L. Brusatte. 2008. Basal abelisaurid and carcharodontosaurid theropods from the Lower Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation of Niger. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(1):15-46