Aquilops

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Aquilops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in North America during the Early Cretaceous, about 109–98 million years ago. The only known specimen, a skull of a subadult, was found in 1997 in the Cloverly Formation of Carbon County, southern Montana, and became the basis of the new genus and species Aquilops americanus in 2014. The genus name is derived from the Latin and Greek words for "eagle" and "face", in reference to the dinosaur's hooked beak, and the specific name refers to North America, since it was the first early neoceratopsian (ceratopsians with a neck-frill) found there. The holotype specimen consists of a partial skull and lower jaws of a probably subadult individual. Aquilops was prominently featured in the 2025 film Jurassic World: Rebirth, an occasion used for scientific outreach. Aquilops was a small neoceratopsian, and the only known skull is 84.2 mm (3.31 in) long as preserved, from which a total length of about 60 cm (24 in) and a weight of about 1.6 kg...

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