Rugops is an ancient predator that lived in the Cretaceous period, approximately 95 million years ago. It was a small dinosaur, measuring only about 3 feet long and weighing around 20 pounds. Its most distinctive feature was its long, curved snout, which was
Rugops is a monospecific genus of basal abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Echkar Formation in Niger. The type and only species, Rugops primus, is known only from a partial skull. It was named and described in 2004 by Paul Sereno, Jeffery Wilson and Jack Conrad. Rugops has an estimated length of 4.4–5.3 metres (14–17 ft) and weight of 410 kilograms (900 lb). The top of its skull bears several pits which correlates with overlaying scale and the front of the snout would have had an armour-like dermis.