Genus: Gasparinisuchus MARTINELLI, SERTICH, GARRIDO & PRADEIRO,
2012
Etymology: In honor of the accomplished vertebrate paleontologist Zulma
Brandoni de Gasparini for her prolific work on South American crocodoliforms,
and Greek, souchos, with reference to the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek.
Species: peirosauroides MARTINELLI, SERTICH, GARRIDO & PRADEIRO,
2012
Etymology: Perirosauroides, with reference to the significance of the holotype
specimen as the basis for the designation of the family Peirosauridae.
= Peirosaurus torminni GASPARINI, 1982
Holotype: MOZ 1750 PV
Locality: 600 m NE of Pozo LLL Exp (YPF), Loma de La Lata, (75 km northwest to the city of Neuquen), Department of Confluencia, Neuquen Province, northwest Patagonia, Argentina.
Horizon: Bajo de la Carpa Formation, Lower Rio Colorado Subgroup, Upper Neuquen
Group.
(was Bajo de La Carpa Member? Rio Colorado Formation, Neuquen Group.)
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Coloradoan Tetrapoda Assemblage, Santonian-Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material: Rostrum, mandible and cervical centrum.
Gasparinisuchus peirosauroides (modified from Martinelli et al. 2012).
Referred material:
= Peirosaruus torminni PRADEIRO, MARTINELLI, AND CANDEIRO, 2009
Locality: Canadon Amarrillo, south Malargue City, Mendoza Province, Argentina.
Horizon: Anacleto Formation, Neuquen Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Early Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
PV-CRIDC-12: Right premaxilla and maxilla, isolated teeth, and part of a postcranial skeleton.