 It was finally named as a new genus and species by Cesar Leandro Schultz, Max Cardoso Langer and Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro in 2016 as "B. mariantensis".The generic name "Brasinorhynchus" comes from Portuguese "brasino" used for red horses in south Brazil in reference to the red color of the fossils and their resemblance to a horse skull, and from the Greek "rhynchos" meaning "beak", a common suffix for rhynchosaur genera.The specific name shares its origin with the specimens' old nickname, the "Mariante Rhynchosaur".