Dinosaur
Aquilops
The bony core of its beak curved downward and had a small forward protuberance.
The name Aquilops invites you to look at its curved beak, similar in profile to that of an eagle.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Aquilops at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Neoceratopsia
- Neoceratopsians
- Fossil locations
- Montana
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Aquilops
It is known from a skull of an individual not yet fully adult. The hooked beak inspired its name "eagle face" and the fossil was formally described in 2014.
The bony core of its beak curved downward and had a small bump at the front. The known skull came from an animal that was not fully grown. That matters when comparing its shape and size with other dinosaurs with neck frills.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Aquilops americanus
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- Aquilops
Wikipedia contributors · English source
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- Neoceratopsia
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- Living birds
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Existing English translations have been selected and arranged for this encyclopedia. Repeated period and diet text is omitted where those fields already carry it. Unknown facts remain unfilled; unreviewed geological age phrases are omitted and period labels replace numerical ages.
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