Species: bravardi BONA, BARROS, EZCURRA, BLANCO & CIDADE, 2025
Etymology: In honor of Auguste Bravard, who was an active French geologist and palaeontologist and one of the first researchers to study the Tertiary fossils from the Parana River Banks (Bravard, 1858). Bravard also took charge of the direction of Museo Nacional de Parana in 1858 and died tragically in an earhquake in Mendoza (Argentina) i n 1861 (Tonni et al. 2008).
Holotype: MACN-Pv 13551
Locality: Riverbanks of the Prana River, in the area of the city of Parana, Entre Rios Province, Argentina.
Horizon: 'Conglomerado osifero', Ituzaingo Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Miocene Epoch, Neogene Period, Upper Tertiary Subera, Lower Cenozoic Era.
Material: Partial skull table.
Referred material:
MLP-Pv 73-IV-15-11: Fragmetn of skull talbe lacking part of the left postorbital and squamosal.
MLP-PV 73-IV-15-13, -14: Partial frontals.