Bravoceratops

Bravoceratops is a genus of large chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived approximately 70 million years ago, and is known from the Late Cretaceous Javelina Formation in what is now Texas, United States.

Signs of erosion are presented in the larger bone fragments, which were found disorganized over an area of ten square metres; the site is thought to have been a lag deposit of a river, only most durable extremities able to survive preservation.

The animal would have lived during the late Campanian or early Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period, approximately 70 million years ago.

It is this hollow in the form of an inverted tear that occasioned the specific name as it resembled the single eye of a cyclops, thus the allusion with Polyphemus.

[2] However, a number of authors considered the genus valid (see classification below) and it was included as part of a southwest clade of chasmosaurines by Dalman et al., (2021).

The epijugal, a small horn on the jugals, is longer than tall and sharp on its tip, as in Sierraceratops and unlike other derived chasmosaurines.

The two brow horns are compressed, being taller than wide rather than conical, a trait shared with Sierraceratops and the distantly related Judiceratops.

The first tree is reproduced on the left, and the second on the right:[1] Chasmosaurus Mojoceratops Agujaceratops Utahceratops Pentaceratops Coahuilaceratops Bravoceratops Vagaceratops Kosmoceratops Anchiceratops Arrhinoceratops Triceratopsini Chasmosaurus Mojoceratops Agujaceratops Utahceratops Pentaceratops Vagaceratops Kosmoceratops Anchiceratops Arrhinoceratops Coahuilaceratops Bravoceratops More derived Triceratopsini Future studies found trees showing the derived position, with Bravoceratops found related to Arrhinoceratops and Triceratopsini.

Polyphemus , mythological namesake of the species
Life reconstruction showing the originally suggested midline horn at the top of the frill, which may be inaccurate