Genus: Shashajaia HUTTENLOCKER, SINGH, HENRICI & SURMIDA, 2021
Etymology: Navajo, shash, "bear" and Navajo, ajai, "heart."

Species: bermani HUTTENLOCKER, SINGH, HENRICI & SURMIDA, 2021
Etymology: In honor of David S. Berman for his decades of research on fossils of sphenacodontians and others from the Bears Ears region of southern UTha, and which laid the foundation for the present study.

Holotype: CM 96529

Locality: Birthday bonebed (CM locality no. 3345), Valley of the Gods, Bears Ears National Monument, San Juan County, southeast Utah.

Horizon: Halgaito Formation, Cutler Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Virgilian, Gzhelian Epoch, Late Pennsylvanian Subperiod, Latest Carboniferous Period.

Material: Isolated left dentary.

Referred material:

CM 91209: Partial denary preserving porion of the postcanine toothrow.