Productus kiangsiensis was named by Kayser (1883). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mingshan Coalfield, Loping Area, which is in a Lopingian carbonate limestone in China.

It was recombined as Productus (Haydenella) kiangsiensis by Reed (1931); it was recombined as Linoproductus kiangsiensis by Huang (1932), Shimizu (1961); it was recombined as Argentiproductus kiangsiensis by Zhang and Jin (1961); it was recombined as Haydenella kiangsiensis by Termier and Termier (1970), Yang et al. (1977), Jin and Hu (1978), Tong (1978), Zhan (1979), Liao (1980), Lee and Gu (1980), Wang et al. (1982), Liao (1987), Zhan (1989), Zeng et al. (1995), Campi et al. (2005), Shen and Zhang (2008), Shen and Shi (2008), Li and Shen (2008), He et al. (2008), Chen and Liao (2009), Shen and Clapham (2009), Chen (2009), Crippa and Angiolini (2012), Garbelli and Angiolini (2014), Shen et al. (2017), He et al. (2019), Wu et al. (2022).