Well-preserved remains of a crocodyloid were first described from Germany and France in 1966 and placed in a new species of Asiatosuchus, A. germanicus.[REF]
In 1964 Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian named a new species of Asiatosuchus, A. nanlingensis, from the Shanghu Formation in Nanxiong, Guangdong Province, China.