Genus: Heleosuchus BROOM, 1913
Etymology:

Species: griesbachii (OWEN, 1876)
Etymology:
= Saurosternon greisbachi OWEN, 1876

Holotype: Vienna Natural History Museum, No. 2374
Cast BMNH R5000

Locality: Sneeuberg Range, Stylkrantz, Cape Colony, South Africa.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: Dicynodon Assemblage zone (formerly Daptocephalus zone), or Cistecephalus Zone or Lystrosaurus Zone, Late Permian or Early Triassic.

Age: Tatarian Stage, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian, or Early Scythian Epoch, Early Triassic.

Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.
Note: With a pathologic right femur? And a left fibula with a callus (CARROLL, 1987)