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 guizhouense, Tainoceras hunanense, Tainoceras kitakamiense, Tainoceras lateronodosum, 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 34367. Its type locality is Zhongying Section Bed 23 (QZ-5), Qinglong County, which is in a Changhsingian coastal marl in China.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore