Ferrisaurus

Ferrisaurus (meaning "iron lizard") is a genus of leptoceratopsid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Sustut Basin (Tango Creek Formation) in British Columbia, Canada. The type and only species is Ferrisaurus sustutensis. It is the first non-avian dinosaur described from British Columbia.[1]

Ferrisaurus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 67 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Family: Leptoceratopsidae
Genus: Ferrisaurus
Arbour & Evans, 2019
Type species
Ferrisaurus sustutensis
Arbour & Evans, 2019

See also

References

  1. Arbour, Victoria; Evans, David (2019). "A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada". PeerJ. doi:10.7717/peerj.7926.


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