Liassaurus
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"Liassaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a probable ceratosaur which lived in what is now Europe. The type species, "L. huenei", was coined by Welles, Powell, and Pickering in 1995 and was approximately 6 meters long.
The name "Liassaurus" comes from "Lias", another name for the Early Jurassic, a fitting name for this animal, which lived around 200 million years ago. Although mentioned in papers as far back as 1995, "Liassaurus" has never been formally described; it is thus a nomen nudum. The species name honors well-known paleontologist Friedrich von Huene.
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