Genus: Labrujasuchus TURNER, KERNAN, LAING, PRITCHARD, STOCKER, IRMIS, SMITH, WERNING & NESBITT, 2026
Etymology: The generic name Labrujasuchus is derived from "Ranchos de los Brujos," Ranch of the Witches, an old Spanish name of the Ghost Ranch area, and Greek, suchus, "crocodile": Thorn crocodile.

Species: expectatus TURNER, KERNAN, LAING, PRITCHARD, STOCKER, IRMIS, SMITH, WERNING & NESBITT, 2026
Etymology: Latin, expectatus, "expected or awaited."

Holotype: GR 235

Locality: Hayden Quarry 2, near Ghost Ranch Quarry, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

Horizon: Petrified Forest Member, Chinle Formation (Petrified Forest Formation, Chinle Group).

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: Almost complete left humerus, both radii, a partial right coracoid, partial right and left pubes, a partial left femur missing the distal end, complete right and left tibiae, an almost complete right fibula, a complete but distorted left fibula, a nearly complete neural arch of a prosterior cervical or anterior dorsal vertebra, and a centrum from the posteiror portion of the turnk or anteriormost portion of the caudal region.

Referred material:

GR 1136: Fragmentary cervical vertebra.

 

Locality: Hayden Quarry 3, near Ghost Ranch Quarry, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

Horizon: Petrified Forest Member, Chinle Formation (Petrified Forest Formation, Chinle Group).

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

GR 1138: Cervical centrum.

GR 1139: Left coracoid.

GR 1140: Conjoined ischia.

 

Locality: Hayden Quarry 4, near Ghost Ranch Quarry, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

Horizon: Petrified Forest Member, Chinle Formation (Petrified Forest Formation, Chinle Group).

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

GR 1345: Left tibia.

GR 1135: Partial cervical vertebra.