 These two specimens were originally described by von Huene (1938) and are stored at the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (Bayerische Staatsammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, BSPG) institute of the Bavarian Natural History Collections (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, or SNSB) in Munich, Germany.Huene described several more "Prestosuchus"-like reptiles shortly afterwards, although he did not consider them to be the same species as "Prestosuchus chiniquensis".One specimen, with its fossils labelled as SNSB-BSPG AS XXV 131-139, was given its own genus and species