Genus: Apachesuchus SPIELMANN, & LUCAS, 2012
Etymology: In refernece to Apache Canyon, Quay County, New Mexico, a key collecting area for Redonda Fromation Fossils, and Latin, suchus, "crocodile."

Species:  heckerti SPIELMANN, & LUCAS, 2012
Etymology: In honor of Andrew B. Heckert, for helping to collect and intially describing the holotype and for his extensive contributions to our knowledge of Late Triassic vertebrates, especially aetosaurs.
= cf. Neoaetosauroides HECKERT, LUCAS, HUNT & HARRIS, 2001

Holotype: NMMNH P-31100

Locality: NMMNH locality 4211, Quay County, New Mexico.

Horizon: Quay Member, Redonda Formation, Chinle Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Apachean, Late Norian Stage- Rhaetian Stage, Upper Late Triassic Epoch, Late Late Triassic.

Material: Dorsal paramedian osteoderm.

Paratype:

NMMNH P-63426: Caudal osteoderm.

NMMNH P-63427: Cervical osteoderm.