Genus: Cariocecus BERTOZZO, CAMILO, ARAUJO, MANUCCI, KULLBERG, CERIO, de CARVALHO, MARRECAS, FIGUEIREDO & GODEFROIT, 2025
Etymology: The generic name refers to Cariocecus, the deity associated with war among Iberian and Lusitanian peoples who lived in what is now central Portugal. Cariocecus was syncretized in Ares (Greek) and Mars (Roman) after the Roman Empire conquered the region (e.g. De Ruggiero, 1895). The generic name also alludes to the superficial resemblance to the skull of goats and horses, animals typically sarificed in religious rituals to Cariocecus (Papavero & Viaro, 2014).

Species: bocagei BERTOZZO, CAMILO, ARAUJO, MANUCCI, KULLBERG, CERIO, de CARVALHO, MARRECAS, FIGUEIREDO & GODEFROIT, 2025
Etymology: In honor of the memory and academic impact of Jose Vicent Barbosa du Bocage /91823-1907), a nineteenth-century Portuguese naturalist who pioneered zoological research in Portugal, supporting the discipline by securing appropriate physical and institutional spaces (Gamito-Marques, 2018).

Holotype: SHN.832

Locality: Paraia do Areia do Mastro, Sesimbra Municipality, 38°26'20.472"N, 9°12'33.252"W, Setubal Peninsual, Portugal.

Horizon: Papo Seco Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Barremian Stage, Early Gallic Subepoch, Middle Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Fragmentary skull; partial premaxilla, nasals, rigth maxilla with 12 erupted maxillary teeth, right jugal, right ectopterygoid, right lachrymal, right prefrontal, right supraorital, frontals, right postorbital, and a nearly complete basicranium, with separted parasphenoid and orbitosphenoid.