Genus
Valid Extinct

Ferrisaurus

Arbour and Evans 2019

Ferrisaurus is a genus of leptoceratopsid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Sustut Basin in British Columbia, Canada. The type and only species is Ferrisaurus sustutensis. It is the first non-avian dinosaur described from British Columbia.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Ferrisaurus
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Holotype of Ferrisaurus sustutensis, RBCM P900, on display in the Okanagan Heritage Museum exhibition Dinosaurs of BC, June-September 2024. © IJReid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Ornithischia Unranked clade
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Neornithischia Unranked clade
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Pyrodontia Unranked clade
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Cerapoda Unranked clade
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Marginocephalia Unranked clade
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Ceratopsia Suborder
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Neoceratopsia Infraorder
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Leptoceratopsidae Family
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Ferrisaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
1
Geological formations
Tango Creek
1
Temporal distribution
Maastrichtian (72.2–66 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Ferrisaurus sustutensis 72 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
V. M. Arbour and D. C. Evans. 2019. A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada. PeerJ 7:e7926 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
V. M. Arbour and D. C. Evans. 2019. A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada. PeerJ 7:e7926 DOI ↗