Genus: Benggwigwishingasuchus SMITH, KLEIN, SANDER & SCHMITZ, 2024
Etymology: Shoshone, benggwi gwishinga, "catching fish," and Greek, suchus, "The Greek term for Sobek, the Egyptian crocodile-headed god". Fisherman Croc's desert song.
Species: eremicarminis SMITH, KLEIN, SANDER & SCHMITZ, 2024
Etymology: Latin, erema, "desert" and Latin, carminis, "song", and honours Elaine Kramer and Monica Shaffer, and thier love for the palaeontology, museums, and opera of the southwestern USA.
Holotype: LACM-DI 158616
Locality: Favret Canyon, Augusta Mountains, Pershing County, Nevada.
Horizon: Fossil Hill Member, Favret Formation (Marine deposit).
Biostratigraphy: Frechites occidentalis Zone.
Age: Late Anisian Stage, Early Mid Triassic Epoch, Early Middle Triassic.
Material: A partially articulated skeleton, including some cranial elements but most of the axial column, girdles and limbs.