[2] The remains of Berberosaurus were discovered during a series of expeditions to the High Atlas beginning in the early 2000s, when in 6 years, where made to dig in the local redbeds.

It is based on an associated partial postcranial skeleton of a subadult individual cataloged in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Marrakech; bones from this skeleton include MHNM-Pt9 a neck vertebra;MHNM-Pt23, an anterior part of the sacrum; MHNM-Pt22, a metacarpal; MHNM-Pt19, a femur; MHNM-Pt21, proximal end of the left tibia; MHNM-Pt20, both fibulae; MHNM-Pt16, part of another femur, has been assigned to the genus as well.

[2] Recent papers have quoted that new material of this genus was recovered on the same area, namely the axis, a postorbital, the cranium and teeth, that are currently being studied.

[2] Ronan Allain and colleagues, who described Berberosaurus, performed a phylogenetic analysis and found their new genus to be the most basal known abelisauroid, more derived than Elaphrosaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Spinostropheus, but less so than Xenotarsosaurus and abelisaurians.

[13][14] The "Toundoute Continental Series", unlike other members of the Azilal Formation, due to the presence of volcanic material of coeval age.

The Azilal Formation recovers a Terrestrial progradation that happened in the Central High Atlas Basin towards the Toarcian, where the older Pliensbachian Carbonate Platform retreated to the east.