Champ

champ is a lightning attributed achelousaurus and is a strong sport combatant in the D-team

## character design

### personality

champ is very cocky and narcissistic, not very trustworthy to humans since dinosaurs ruled the earth far longer than mammals. however she is rather very competing when it comes to sports like soccer as that is responsible for her name, making her really head strong and confident she will win every time when competing against rocko

## anatomy

as an achelousaurus, champ is a medium sized ceratopsian, estimated up to 6 m (20 ft) long with a weight of 3 t (3.3 short tons). champs skull is up to 1.62 m (5.3 ft) long. This puts champ in the same size-range as other members of the Centrosaurinae subgroup of ceratopsians that lived during the Campanian age.champ is about as large as its close relative *Einiosaurus*, but with a much heavier build. champ approached the robustness of one of the largest and most heavily built horned dinosaurs known – *Triceratops*.

As a ceratopsid, champ is a quadrupedal animal with hoofed digits and a shortened, downwards swept tail. champ's very large head, which rested on a straight neck, has a hooked upper beak, very large nasal openings, and long tooth rows develop into dental batteries that containhundreds of appressed and stacked individual teeth. In the tooth sockets, new teeth grew under the old ones, each position housing a column of teeth posed on top of each other. champ has 25 to 28 such tooth positions in each maxilla (upper jaw bone).

### Distinguishing traits

champ has nasal bones with a boss on top that is relatively small and thin, and heavily covered with pits; and she did not have true horns above the eye sockets but relatively large bosses with high ridges

champs frill spikes are more outwards oriented than the spikes of *Einiosaurus*, which are medially curved; champs spikes are nevertheless less directed to the outside than the comparable spikes of *Pachyrhinosaurus*. champ also differs from *Pachyrhinosaurus* in its smaller nasal boss that does not reach the frontal bones at its rear. Apart from the skull, no features of the skeleton are known that distinguish champs species from other members of the Centrosaurinae.

### Skull

Horned dinosaurs mainly differ from each other in their horns, which are located on the snout and above the eyes, and in the large skull frill, which covers the neck like a shield. champ exhibited the build of derived ("advanced") centrosaurines, which are typified by short brow horns or bosses, combined with elaborate frill spikes. The general frill proportions are typically centrosaurine, with a wide rounded squamosal bone at the side, which expanded towards the rear. It also shares the typical frill curvature with a top surface that is convex from side to side and concave from front to rear.

champ has a rugose, heavily pitted boss on the snout or nasal region, where many other ceratopsids had a horn. Such a boss is often called "pachyostotic", i.e. consisting of thickened bone. But describing it as a thick "boss" can be misleading: in fact, it forms a wide depression with a thin bone floor and irregular excavations, though it is less depressed than with *Pachyrhinosaurus*. The nasal boss covered about two-thirds of the top surface of the nasal bones. The boss was similar to that seen in the related genus *Pachyrhinosaurus*, though narrower, shorter, and less high. It covered 27% of the total skull length, was 30% longer than the nostril-eye socket distance and was about twice as long as the eye socket. Its rear edge did not reach the level of the eye socket. The nasal boss extended forward, where it fused onto the nasal and premaxilla bones (of the upper jaw) at the front of the snout, though the nasal bone itself did not fuse with the premaxilla. The boss of specimen MOR 485 furthermore had an excavation (or cavity) at its front end. The horn core that formed the boss may have developed by either becoming procurved (i.e. bent forward) during growth, like the horn of the related *Einiosaurus*, until it fused onto the nasal bone; or from a simple, erect horn, which later extended its base forward over the snout region, as in *Pachyrhinosaurus*. The nasal bone formed the top of a large bony nostril. From the rear edge of that nostril a sharp process stuck out to the front. The snout was – compared to that of *Einiosaurus* – relatively wide at the level of the rear nostrils. The lacrimal bone, in front of the eye socket, was thickened, mainly on the inner surface while the outer surface was featureless apart from a crater-like excavation.

her skull also possess large, rugose, and oval bosses on the supraorbital region above the eyes, instead of the horns of other ceratopsids. The supraorbital bosses extended from the postorbital bone forward to incorporate the triangular palpebral and prefrontal bones, and had high transverse ridges around the middle, which were thick at their base and thin towards their top. The palpebral bones strongly stood out, forming an "antorbital buttress". The fused prefrontals did not reach the nasal boss, forming a distinctive transverse saddle-shaped groove separating the nasal boss from the supraorbital bosses. This groove extended backwards, separating the supraorbital bosses from each other and forming a T-shape in top view. These bosses were similar to those of *Pachyrhinosaurus*, but with taller ridges and more pronounced rugosities. champs long and low supraorbital horncores are similar to those of sub-adult *Einiosaurus* and *Pachyrhinosaurus*. They had a concave surface on the inner side as with *Pachyrhinosaurus*; ridges on the postorbital bones were present that may indicate a beginning transition to bosses.

champs skull roof has a midline cavity, with an opening at the top called the frontal fontanelle, a feature found in all ceratopsids, which have a "double" skull roof formed by the frontal bones folding towards each other between the brow horn bases. This cavity formed sinuses that extended below the supraorbital bosses, which were therefore relatively thin internally, being 25 mm (1 in) thick from the outside to the cavity roof. This cavity appears to have partially closed over as an animal aged, with only the rear part of the fontanelle being open in the adult specimen MOR 485.

Like that of all other ceratopsids, champs skull has parietosquamosal frill or "neck shield", which was formed by the parietal bones at the rear and the squamosal bones at the sides. The parietal is one of the main bones used to distinguish centrosaurine taxa from each other and resolve relationships between them, whereas the squamosal is very similar across taxa. In champs species, the squamosal bone was much shorter than the parietal. Of its inner margin the rear portion formed a step in relation to the front part, with the suture between the squamosal and the parietal showing a kink to behind at the level of the rear supratemporal fenestra, a typical centrosaurine trait. The squamosal and the jugal bone, by touching each other, excluded the quadratojugal from the edge of the lateral temporal fenestra, i.e. the opening at the rear of the skull side.

#### Keratin sheaths

The bosses on champs skull is covered in a keratinous sheath in life, but their shape in a living animal is uncertain. In 2009, the paleontologist Tobin L. Hieronymus and colleagues examined correlations between skull morphology, horn, and skin features of modern horned animals, and examined the skull of centrosaurine dinosaurs for the same correlates. t the rugose bosses of champs species and *Pachyrhinosaurus* were covered by thick pads of cornified (or keratinized) skin, similar to the boss of modern muskoxen (*Ovibos moschatus*). champs nasal horncore has an upward slant and its upper surface had correlates for a thick epidermal (outer layer of skin) pad that graded into correlates for a cornified sheath on the sides. A thick pad of epidermis may have grown from the V-shaped pitted notch at the tip of the nasal horncore. The growth direction of the nasal pad would have been towards the front. The supraorbital bosses may have had a thick pad of epidermis, which grew at a sideways angle similar to the curved horncores of *Coronosaurus*, as indicated by the orientation of the "fins" or ridges on the bosses. That the supraorbital bosses lacked a sulcus (or furrow) at their bases indicates that their horn pads stopped at the wrinkled edges of the bosses. The pitting might indicate a softer growing layer connecting the hard inner bone with the hard horn sheath. In addition, correlates for a rostral scale in front of the nasal boss and scale rows along the parietal midline and supraorbital-squamosal region were identified

## abilities

* attack burst: champ gets a boost from electricity, lightning bolts causing a sandstorm; she runs up and knocks her opponent into the air, where they are struck with bolts lightning, then she jumps up and slams into them from below before kicking them down from above