Aquilops

eagle face

• aquila · Latin · eagle
• ops · Greek · face

The name combines Latin "aquila" (eagle) with Greek "ops" (face). It refers to the narrow, sharply hooked, beak-like snout of the small skull, which looks somewhat like an eagle's beak. The only species is Aquilops americanus, whose species name refers to America, since it is one of the earliest known neoceratopsians from North America.

Named by

Farke et al.

Year named

2014

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Albian

Found in

Cloverly Formation, Montana, USA

A small, early horned-dinosaur relative (basal neoceratopsian) known from a partial skull. It is among the oldest known ceratopsians from North America.