Genus: Fruitafossor LUO & WIBLE, 2005
Etymology: In reference to the town of Fruita, Colorado, where the specimen was found, and Greek, fossor, "digging"; after the fossorial (digging) specialization of the forelimbs and vertebrae.

Species: windscheffeli LUO & WIBLE, 2005
Etymology: In honor of Wally Windscheffle, who discovered the type material.

Holotype: LACM 150948

Locality: Fruita Paleontological Area, localities "Fruita General" and "Fruita Main" Quarry 4, Mesa County, Colorado.

Horizon: Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Zone 4.

Age: Upper Part, Comobluffian age, Tithonian Stage, Uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Lower jaws, incomplete cranium and about 40% of the postcranial skeleton.

Note: This was a digging mammal.

Referred material:

DAVIS, CIFELLI & ROUGIER, 2018

Locality: Cisco Mammal Quarry (OMNH locality V1278), Grand County, Utah.

Horizon: Morrison Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Comobluffian age, Kimmeridgian-Tithonian Stage, uppermost Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

OMNH 78599: Partial skull.