Rugops primus Sereno,Wilson&Conrad,2004

Souza-Júnior, André Luis de, Candeiro, Carlos Roberto dos Anjos, Vidal, Luciano da Silva, Brusatte, Stephen Louis & Mortimer, Mickey, 2023, Abelisauroidea (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from Africa: a review of the fossil record, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63, pp. 1-13 : 2

Rugops primus Sereno,Wilson&Conrad,2004

– Rugops primus is from the Echkar Formation (Cenomanian), which outcrops near Abangharit , in the Republic of Niger. Rugops was described based on the specimen MNN IGU1 , a partially complete cranium. Before the description of Rugops , abelisaurids were not clearly known from Africa, and it was often argued that they may have never lived on the continent. Rugops , therefore, was the first named species,and first well-preserved specimen,of a genuine abelisaurid described from continental Africa ( Sereno et al., 2004).