Berberosaurus
Field photograph to come
Berberosaurus
DV-0622 · type species Berberosaurus liassicus
- Lived
- 193 to 175 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods, Ceratosauridae
- Found in
- Morocco
- Named by
- Allain et al. 2007
Field notes
About Berberosaurus
Berberosaurus was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Jurassic, 193 to 175 million years ago. It belongs to the family Ceratosauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Berberosaurus, from Morocco. It was named by Allain et al. in 2007.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
185 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Ceratosauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: R. Allain, R. S. Tykoski, and N. Aquesbi, N.-E. Jalil, M. Monbaron, D. A. Russell, P. Taquet. 2007. An abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic of the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, and the radiation of ceratosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3):610-624