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| Sauroniops Temporal range: Lower Cenomanian,
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| Holotype specimen, a left frontal bone (MPM 2594) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Carcharodontosauridae |
| Genus: | †Sauroniops Cau et al., 2012[1] |
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| †Sauroniops pachytholus Cau et al., 2012[1]
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Sauroniops is a controversial, potentially dubious, genus of carnivorous basal carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian stage) of Morocco. It is mainly known from the Gara Sbaa Formation of the Kem Kem beds and contains a single species, S. platytholus.[1]
- ^ a b c Cau, Andrea; Dalla Vecchia, Fabio M.; Fabbri, Matteo (March 2013). "A thick-skulled theropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco with implications for carcharodontosaurid cranial evolution". Cretaceous Research. 40: 251–260. Bibcode:2013CrRes..40..251C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.09.002.
- ^ Molina-Pérez, Rubén; Larramendi, Asier; Connolly, David; Ramírez Cruz, Gonzalo Ángel; Mazzei, Sante; Atuchin, Andrey (25 June 2019). Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Theropods and Other Dinosauriformes. Princeton University Press. doi:10.1515/9780691190594-013. ISBN 978-0-691-19059-4. S2CID 241124870.