Dinosaurs · Ceratopsian

Aquilops

Say it ACK-will-ops. The name means ‘eagle face’.

Aquilops beside a person 1.75 m tall. Ticks mark every metre.Body shape drawn for this site, showing the general build of ceratopsians

Length: 0.6 m
Weight: 1 kg
Diet: Plant-eater
Walked: On 2 or 4 legs
When: Early Cretaceous109 to 104 million years ago
Fossils found in: USA
Named by: Farke and colleagues (2014)
Family tree: Dinosauria › Ornithischia › Ceratopsia › Neoceratopsia

Where Aquilops sits in the age of dinosaurs.Periods from the ICS chart; dinosaur dates from the Natural History Museum

Ceratopsians. Horned and frilled plant-eaters, such as Triceratops. See all 29

Lived at the same time

Nodosaurus · same country
Sauropelta · same country
Acrocanthosaurus · same country
Deinonychus · same country
Archaeoceratops
Atlascopcosaurus
Austrosaurus
Chubutisaurus

Other ceratopsians

Graciliceratops Late Cretaceous
Psittacosaurus Early Cretaceous
Archaeoceratops Early Cretaceous
Zuniceratops Late Cretaceous
Liaoceratops Early Cretaceous
Stenopelix Early Cretaceous
Microceratus Late Cretaceous
Bagaceratops Late Cretaceous

Source: Aquilops in the Natural History Museum Dino Directory, read 12 November 2026. Sizes are the museum's estimates for a typical adult. "Lived at the same time" lists dinosaurs whose dates overlap, which does not always mean they met.