Ferrisaurus

Ferris lizard

• Ferri- · unknown · first element of the name; I am not certain what it commemorates
• -saurus · Greek · lizard

The ending -saurus is the standard Greek-derived word for "lizard". I'm not sure what the first part of the name honors, so I can't give a reliable account of why it was chosen.

Period

Cretaceous

Found in

Sustut Basin, British Columbia, Canada

I recall Ferrisaurus sustutensis as a dinosaur from the Sustut Basin of northern British Columbia, but I'm not confident of the authorship, year, exact age or the origin of the name. I've left those fields blank rather than guess, so please check them against a primary source.