Rugops
Rugops was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Niger, Africa, about 95 million years ago. It had a wrinkled, bumpy face and a delicate skull, which scientists think means it was a scavenger rather than a fierce hunter.12
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
E ne e phahame hakae?
E ne e le boima hakae?
telele jwaloka dintja tse 5 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatleng๐telele jwaloka dibanana tse 29 di behilwe ka mola๐boima jwaloka mahapu a 82๐งธboima jwaloka bana ba kereshe ba 22๐boima jwaloka bana ba sekolo ba 13๐e ne e ka matha dimitara tse 100 ka metsotswana e 8.2 (motho ya lebelo ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)Rugops e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ho browser ya hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Rugops is known from only a partial skull, which is about 31.5 centimetres (12.4 inches) long.2
The top of its skull had many pits and bumps, which would have supported scales and a tough, armour-like skin on its snout.2
Rows of holes in the skull may mean Rugops had a crest or some kind of display structure on its head.1
Rugops lived alongside other huge predators like Carcharodontosaurus and Spinosaurus.2
The type specimen might have been a subadult, because its skull bones were not fully fused together.2
Rugops was one of the earliest abelisaurids, a group of horned, short-snouted theropods that lived in the southern continents.2

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Rugops
?How big was Rugops?
Scientists estimate Rugops was about 4.4 to 5.3 metres (14 to 17 feet) long and weighed around 410 kilograms (900 pounds). Some earlier estimates suggested it was up to 6 metres (20 feet) long and 750 kilograms (1,650 pounds).2
?What did Rugops eat?
Rugops was a carnivore, meaning it ate meat. Its delicate skull suggests it was a scavenger that fed on dead animals rather than a hunter that killed its own prey.13
?Where did Rugops live?
Rugops lived in what is now Niger, Africa, about 95 million years ago. Its fossils were found in the Echkar Formation, which was a river and lake environment.2
?Did Rugops have feathers?
Nobody knows for sure. Rugops is known only from a skull, and no feathers or feather impressions have been found with it. Its skull had pits and bumps that supported scales, not feathers.2
?Why is it called Rugops?
Rugops means 'wrinkle face' in Latin and Greek. It was named for the wrinkled, bumpy texture on its skull bones.2
?Was Rugops bigger than T. rex?
No, Rugops was much smaller. Rugops was about 4.4 to 5.3 metres (14 to 17 feet) long, while T. rex was over 12 metres (40 feet) long.2
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Rugops
- E rehilwe ke
- Sereno et al. 20044
- Sehlopha
- Didinosaure tse jang nama
- Lelapa / leloko
- Abelisauridae4
- Tlhophiso
- Theropoda > Ceratosauria > Abelisauridae4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 100 ho isa ho 94 (Cenomanian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Echkar4
- Dinaha
- Niger4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- Rugops was named in 2004 by paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team, based on a partial skull found in the Echkar Formation of Niger during an expedition funded by the National Geographic Society.2
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Rugops is related to other abelisaurids; some studies place it as the most primitive, while others put it in a group with several other genera.2
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Rugops | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
- Rugops (en.wikipedia.org)
- Discoveries | Paul Sereno - Paleontologist | The University of Chicago (paulsereno.uchicago.edu)
- Rugops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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