Pronunciation:
Meaning: Iron lizard
Author/s: Arbour and Evans (2019)
Synonyms: None known
First Discovery: British Columbia, Canada
Discovery Chart Position: #1010
Ferrisaurus sustutensis
(Iron lizard from Sustut)Etymology
Ferrisaurus is derived from the Latin "ferrum" (iron) and the Greek "sauros" (lizard), in reference to the specimen's discovery along an iron railway line.
The species epithet, sustutensis, means "from Sustut" in Latin, in reference to its discovery in the Sustut Basin and near the Sustut River.
ZooBank registry: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:A7F4267C-8CC6-49B6-8E52-2C2148929B14.
Discovery
The remains of Ferrisaurus were discovered in the Tatlatui Member of the Tango Creek Formation (Sustut Basin), in rubble from the
construction of the now-abandoned BC Rail line, near the confluence of Birdflat Creek and the Sustut River, northern British Columbia, Canada, by Kenny F. Larsen during a uranium and thorium exploration in 1971.The holotype (RBCM P900, previously catalogued as RBCM.EH2006.019.0001 to RBCM.EH2006.019.010 and published under RBCM.EH2006.019 by Arbour and Graves in 2008) includes parts of the shoulder girdles, left forelimb, left hindlimb, and right foot. The specimen was nicknamed "Buster".
