Outline: a typical ceratopsian
Bravoceratops
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ceratopsians, Ceratopsidae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Wick and Lehman 2013
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
70 million years ago
Field notes
About Bravoceratops
What it was like
Bravoceratops was a large horned plant eater from the chasmosaurine group, relatives of Chasmosaurus and Triceratops. It is known from pieces of the skull, including part of a long frill.
Its world
It lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Texas. Its bones come from the Javelina Formation, where it shared the land with the giant titanosaur Alamosaurus and the duckbill Kritosaurus.
How it was found
Wick and Lehman named it in 2013 from one find. Its name refers to a river in the region.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratopsidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: S. L. Wick and T. M. Lehman. 2013. A new ceratopsian dinosaur from the Javelina Formation (Maastrichtian) of West Texas and implications for chasmosaurine phylogeny. Naturwissenschaften