(Pierre Joseph) Auguste Bravard (18 June 1803 – 28 March 1861)[1][2] was a French mining engineer turned palaeontologist.

[3] Bravard emigrated to Argentina in the winter of 1852–53 and was a long-term resident in Buenos Aires.

He unearthed and studied mammalian fossils, some of which, like the skull of Mesotherium, were sent back to the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Paris.

[5] Bravard, who became director of the natural history museum in Paraná, upheld geological theories contrary to those of Charles Darwin.

At the turn of the twentieth century, an auction of unclaimed crates by the Buenos Aires customs office revealed the collection, which was handed over to the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires.