Chonetes substrophomenoides was named by Huang (1932). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Panshan, Locality T20a, T'ungtzuhsien, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in China.

It was recombined as Chonetina substrophomenoides by Shimizu (1961); it was recombined as Neochonetes substrophomenoides by Yang et al. (1977), Wang et al. (1982), Zhan (1989), Yanagida et al. (1993), Zeng et al. (1995) and Shen et al. (1995); it was recombined as Chonetinella substrophomenoides by Feng and Jiang (1978), Liao (1980) and Niu et al. (2003); it was recombined as Neochonetes (Huangichonetes) substrophomenoides by Shen and Archbold (2002), Campi et al. (2005), Zhang et al. (2013), Shen et al. (2017), Wu et al. (2019), He et al. (2019) and Wu et al. (2022).