Ferrisaurus

Ferrisaurus; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,; ~67 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Skeletal diagram of the holotype
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Order:	†Ornithischia
Suborder:	†Ceratopsia
Family:	†Leptoceratopsidae
Genus:	†Ferrisaurus; Arbour & Evans, 2019
Type species
	†Ferrisaurus sustutensis; Arbour & 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.

Discovery and naming[]

Provenance of the holotype specimen of Ferrisaurus

It was discovered in 1971 during an uranium and thorium exploration by Kenny F. Larsen and was donated to the Dalhousie University in 2004. It was described but not named in 2008;^[1] by then it made its way into the collection of the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. It was named in 2019.^[2] The holotype, RBCM P900, nicknamed Buster,^[3] includes portions of the pectoral girdles, left forelimb, left hindlimb, and right pes.^[2]

The name Ferrisaurus is derived from Latin ferrum (=iron) and Greek sauros (=lizard), referencing to the specimen's discovery along a railway line.^[2] The epithet honours the Sustut River and .^[2]