Eopneumatosuchus colberti was named by Crompton and Smith (1980). Its type specimen is MNA Pl. 2460, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is MCZ 79A/7, Eopneumatosuchus type locality, which is in a Sinemurian/Pliensbachian fluvial siltstone/sandstone in the Kayenta Formation of Arizona. It is the type species of Eopneumatosuchus.