Similarities in the shape of the jaws have assigned the genera to that of the Cirroctopods, although they are much larger than current members of this group. This implies that large, heavily built finned octopods were cruising the north Pacific in the Late Cretaceous. The animal probably would have probably born a close resemblance to a large Dumbo Octopus, and were named after the cirri, or hairs, on the arms of modern cirrate octopods.