Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Full reference: Z. G. Zheng. 1984. Late Permian nautiloids from western Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23:239-252

Belongs to Tainoceras according to Z. G. Zheng 1984

Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras debile, Tainoceras duttoni, Tainoceras gibbosum, Tainoceras guizhouense, Tainoceras hunanense, Tainoceras kitakamiense, Tainoceras malsineri, Tainoceras mingshanense, Tainoceras murrayi, Tainoceras nebrascense, Tainoceras orientale, Tainoceras rotundatum, Tainoceras schellbachi, Tainoceras sexlineatum, Tainoceras toulai, Tainoceras trimuense, Tainoceras unklesbayi, Tainoceras wyomingense

Type specimen: NIGP 34366. Its type locality is Zhongying Section Bed 34 (QZ-18), Qinglong County, which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in China.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 31.4, shell diameter 34.9