hornless, parrot-beaked plant-eaters closely related to the Triceratops

November 7, 2019 10:09 AM

Victoria researcher unveils B.C.’s first unique dinosaur discovery Royal BC Museum palaeonotologist confirms discovery of ‘Ferrisaurus sustutensis’ [Trail Times].

Mysterious claw found 50 years ago identified as 1st dinosaur species unique to B.C. [CBC]

A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada" by Victoria M. Arbour​ and David C. Evans in PeerJ the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences

posted by readinghippo (8 comments total)

That looks very much like a cockatoo.
posted by Splunge at 11:52 AM on November 7, 2019 [1 favorite]

Hey! I know one of the coauthors, and lemme tell you, their baby has a lot of cute dinosaur clothes.
posted by Beardman at 12:39 PM on November 7, 2019 [7 favorites]

I first read the title as 'homeless', which made me wonder how the researches knew!
posted by tavella at 1:36 PM on November 7, 2019 [3 favorites]

Metafilter: hornless, parrot-beaked plant-eaters
posted by Hairy Lobster at 2:03 PM on November 7, 2019 [1 favorite]

Twitter tweet by the artist mentions that the art is titled "A Fall Day Out"
posted by readinghippo at 2:16 PM on November 7, 2019

Voting on the official fossil of British Columbia ended almost exactly 1 year ago, but it's not official yet. If it's too late to add Buster's name into the ring maybe we can add "Official Dinosaur" to the list of Official Provincial Symbols?
posted by acroyear at 4:21 PM on November 7, 2019

Can they tell that a small, hornless triceratops-like dinosaur isn't just a juvenile one?
posted by knoyers at 11:02 PM on November 7, 2019

Can they tell that a small, hornless triceratops-like dinosaur isn't just a juvenile one?

I mostly skimmed the article for pictures (there's pictures of bones!) but there were words about relative length of this that and the other.
posted by readinghippo at 11:13 AM on November 8, 2019