Ferrisaurus | |
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Known remains | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
clade: | Dinosauria |
Order: | †Ornithischia |
Parvorder: | †Coronosauria |
Family: | †Leptoceratopsidae |
Genus: | †Ferrisaurus Arbour & Evans, 2019 |
Species: | †F. sustutensis |
Binomial name | |
†Ferrisaurus sustutensis Arbour & Evans, 2019 |
Ferrisaurus ("iron lizard") is a genus of leptoceratopsid ceratopsian from the Sustut Basin in the Late Cretaceous Tango Creek Formation of British Columbia, Canada. It is also the first non-avian dinosaur discovered in British Columbia. The remains, nicknamed "Buster", were discovered in 1971 and were studied by Victoria Arbour in 2006.

Victoria Arbour next to the holotype