 The generic name is derived from the Greek "aplestos", meaning "insatiate", "gluttonous", and "suchus", Latinized from the Greek "souchos", an Egyptian crocodile god Sebek.The specific name is derived from the Latin "sordidus", meaning "filthy", in reference to the greedy behavior of the animal, demonstrated by the predation of another closely related crocodyliform, an unidentified sphagesaurid.The only known specimen of "Aplestosuchus" is more than one meter long from the tip of the skull to the base of the tail.