| Kryptops Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Skeletal diagram showing the holotype maxilla of the upper jaw in place, the postcrania is based on remains that cannot be confidently attributed to the animal. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Abelisauridae |
| Genus: | †Kryptops Sereno & Brusatte, 2008 |
| Type species | |
| †Kryptops palaios Sereno & Brusatte, 2008
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Kryptops is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Niger. It is known from a partial skeleton found at the Gadoufaoua locality in the western Ténéré Desert, in rocks of the Aptian–Albian-age Elrhaz Formation. This dinosaur was described by paleontologists Paul Sereno and Stephen Brusatte in 2008. The genus name means "covered face", in reference to evidence that the face bore a tightly adhering covering. The type species is K. palaios, which means "old".