- Surface:
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Texture: superficially smooth
Contour: covered with nodules and small tubercles
- Oscula:
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Shape: round to irregular
Diameter: 1--2 mm
- Ectosome:
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Architecture: thick layer of Tornotes either parallel to the surface or splayed at different angles
- Choanosome:
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Architecture: Tracts of Acanthostyles with points that rise up and branch towards the surface.
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 89 -123- 162 µ
Width: 12 -17- 24 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Tornotes
Length: 109 -142- 159 µ
Width: 8 -10- 12 µ
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Anchorate Isochelae
Length: 15 -19- 22 µ
- Skeleton:
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Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Tracts of Acanthostyles with points that rise up and branch towards the surface.
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