#bravoceratops

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Name: Bravoceratops polyphemus

Name Meaning: Wild Horn Face

First Described: 2013

Described By: Wick & Lehman

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Neornithischia, Cerapoda, Marginocephalia, Ceratopsia, Neoceratopsia, Coronosauria, Ceratopsoidea, Ceratopsidae, Chasmosaurinae

Bravoceratops is a Ceratopsian known from a fragmentary skull that was similar in appearance to Anchiceratops, from what we can determine about it. It would have been a very large Ceratopsian, similar to Torosaurus and Triceratops. It was found in the Javelina Formation in Texas, dating back to about 70 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous. It lived in a flood plain somewhat far away from the inland sea, living alongside other dinosaurs such as Alamosaurus, Kritosaurus, and potentially Gryposaurus. It is, for now, the only Ceratopsian known from its formation. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravoceratops

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelina_Formation