Species: scholtzi BROOM, 1907
Etymology:

Holotype: SAM-PK-1070

Locality: Victoria West District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

Horizon: Oudeberg Member, Teekloof Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Lower Cistecephalus zone.

Age: Tatarian Age, Lopingian Subepoch, Zechstein Epoch, Late Permian.

Material: Part and counterpart of skull, mandible, ribs, vertebrae, scapulocoracoids, pelvic girdle, complete left femur, part of the right femur, and osteoderms.

Note: Broom (1907) placed it as a basal diapsid; Carroll (1976) placed it in the eosuchian family Younginidae or possibly as an ancestral archosaurian, whereas Reisz & Modesto (2007) and Botha-Brink et al. (2009) placed it in the family Varanopidae, subfamily Mycterosaurinae. However, because the family Heleosauridae Haughton (1924) is the older name, the subfamily is Heleosauridae and not Mycterosaurinae