1929年の秋と1930年の夏、ルウェリン・I・プライスとウィリアム・B・ハイデンおよびバーナム・ブラウンによりアリゾナ州北部の上部三畳系からヘスペロスクスが発見された。標本は Otto Falkenbach の博物館に輸送され、慎重かつ精密な組み立てが行われた[1]。ピッツバーグのカーネギー自然史博物館のシドニー・プレンティスが様々な骨の描画を行い、Museum Illustrators Corps のジョン・リグランド・ロイス・ダーリングが模型や像を製作した[1]。
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^ abcBrinkman, D. 1981. The origin of the crocodiloid tarsi and the interrelationships of thecodontian archosaurs. Breviora 464:1–23.
^ abBenton, M. J. and J. M. Clark. 1988. Archosaur phylogeny and the relationships of the Crocodylia. pp. 295–338. In M. J. Benton (ed.). The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods Vol. 1.Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
^A. D. Walker, Triassic Reptiles from the Elgin Area: Ornithosuchus and the Origin of Carnosaurs, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 1964 248 53-134; DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1964.0009. Published 26 November 1964
^ abBaczko, M. B. von & Ezcurra, M. D. 2013. Ornithosuchidae: a group of Triassic archosaurs with a unique ankle joint. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 379(1), 187–202.
^ abLucas, S.G., 1993, The Chinle Group: revised stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Triassic nonmarine strata in the western United States: Museum of Northern Arizona, Bulletin 59, p. 27-50.
^ abBlakey, R. C. and R. Gubitosa. 1983, Late Triassic paleogeography and depositional history of the Chinle Formation, southern Utah and northern Arizona: in Reynolds, M.W., and Dolly, E.D., eds., Mesozoic paleogeography of west-central U.S.: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Rocky Mountain Section, Denver, p. 57–76.
^HAUGHTON, S. H.1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg series. Ibid., vol. 12, pp. 323- 497.
^ abIrmis, R.B., 2005, The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona: Mesa Southwest Museum, Bulletin 9, p. 63- 88.