The holotype for Litargosuchus was found by James Kitching, of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, on strata belonging to the lower part of the Elliot Formation, just 2 meters above the Clarens Formation.
Charles Elliot | Cass Elliot | formation | Billy Elliot | Billy Elliot the Musical | Steve Elliot | Mark Elliot | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto | Elliot Paul | Elliot Goldenthal | Desmond Elliot | Command (military formation) | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto | Elliot Minor | Elliot Ingber | Elliot Formation | Lance Formation | Elliot N. Dorff | Elliot Morley | Elliot Lawrence | David Elliot Cohen | Crato Formation | Chinle Formation | Two Medicine Formation | Tamayama Formation | Richard Elliot | Port Elliot, South Australia | Port Elliot | Missing Man Formation (band) | Missing Man Formation |
Arcusaurus is known from two fragmentary skeletons collected in March 2006 at the Spion Kop Heelbo site from the upper Elliot Formation in Senekal in Free State.
This specimen was found in Voyizane, Joe Gqabi District, Cape Province, in rocks of the upper Elliot Formation, a rock formation that dates to the early part of the Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian, approximately 200 to 190 million years ago).