1981  Qiannanites Ruan: 133.

Type species: Qiannanites acutus Ruan, 1981, p.134 [OD].

A:   Conch discoidal, oxycone, involute; umbilicus moderately narrow, aperture rather high.
B:   Growth striae and faint ribs slightly biconvex, almost radiate; ribbing dense, with crenistriate denticulation.
G:   Ventral lobe deeply subdivided, with acute prongs: adjacent lobe acute, saddle between both lobes subacute.
Near umbilicus two small umbilical lobes, one of them, at umbilical seam, rounded.
Sutural formula: [Germ.] (E1EmE1)AL?Ux?Ux: ?, [Russ.] (V1V2V1)LU2U3: ?.

[Ontogenetic development of suture unknown, systematic relationship uncertain,].