Because of incomplete knowledge of Jurassic Chinese sauropods, it has been hard to interpret, with some sources assigning it to Omeisaurus, some to Mamenchisaurus, and some to its own genus.

The genus was based on CV 02501,[1] a specimen including a partial mandible, maxilla, and basioccipital (a bone from the braincase region).

Additional bones from all areas of the skeleton, belonging to multiple individuals, were also described and assigned to the new genus.

[9] This assignment was followed provisionally in the most recent major review of sauropods,[10] but at least one author (Valérie Martin-Rolland) has found it to be a distinct genus.

[11] Whichever genus it turns out to be, as a mamenchisaur- or omeisaur-like sauropod it would have been a large, quadrupedal herbivore with a long neck.