A new species of ancient amphibian with bone-ripping tusks has been found near a major airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a new study says.

Scientists named the 300-million-year-old Fedexia strieglei as a gesture of thanks to the FedEx shipping company, which owns the land where the fossils were found, said study co-author Dave Berman of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

The 2-foot-long (0.6-meter-long) creature is also named for University of Pittsburgh geology student Adam Streigel, who mistook fossils of Fedexia's teeth for ancient fern leaves when he picked them up on a 2004 field trip.

A later excavation found two vertebrae and a well-preserved skull that clearly shows Fedexia's taste for meat: The animal