Berberosaurus liassicus Allain, Tykoski, Aquesbi, Jalil & Monbaron, 2007

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Berberosaurus liassicus Allain, Tykoski, Aquesbi, Jalil & Monbaron, 2007

– B. liassicus is from the upper layers of the continental series of Toundoute, which is Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian-Toarcian) in age, in the region of Douar de Tazouda, near the Toundoute village, High Atlas, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco.

Berberosaurus was described based on postcranial material that includes a cervical vertebra (MHNM-Pt9), the anterior part of a sacrum (MHNM-Pt23), a second left metacarpal (MHNM-Pt22), a right femur (MHNM-Pt19), the proximal end of a left tibia (MHNM-Pt21), the distal end of a right tibia (MHNM-Pt16), and a left fibula (MHNM-Pt20).

Allain et al. (2007) considered B. liassicus to be a basal abelisauroid. The authors also indicated that the material shows some affinities with Noasauridae . However, later studies suggested that this theropod was a basal ceratosaur ( Carrano & Sampson, 2008; Ezcurra et al., 2010). A more recent study ( Rauhut & Carrano, 2016) presented two main hypotheses regarding this taxon: B. liassicus may be a basal ceratosaur or a member of the more derived Ceratosauridae .