- Surface:
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Texture: superficially smooth but somewhat hispid
Contour: Slightly raised flattened lobes delineated by furrows or rounded lobes with ends free
- Oscula:
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Density: few
Diameter: 0.5 -- 1.0 mm
- Ectosome:
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Architecture: In places thick palisades of spreading Strongyles to Subtornotes.
- Choanosome:
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Architecture: Vague pauci- to multispicular tracts to surface. These often confused and made difficult to see due to multitudes of random spicules.
- Skeleton:
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Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Vague pauci- to multispicular tracts to surface. These often confused and made difficult to see due to multitudes of random spicules.
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Styles - Acanthostyles: the latter mostly with spines on the head but a few spined to midpoint of shaft
Length: 618 -806- 933 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Strongyles - Subtornotes
Length: 385 -521- 594 µ
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 26 -37- 55 µ
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