- Surface:
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Contour: granular to verrucose. In larger specimens ridges separated by deep
- Oscula:
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Rims: flush with surface or sunk into furrows or on broad
- Ectosome:
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Architecture: Masses of Strongyles more or less parallel with surface; these penetrated by the tips of tracts.
- Choanosome:
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Architecture: Confused but with thick multispicular tracts of large Acanthostyles braced by single to few Acanthostyles. Tracts echinated by smaller Acanthostyles.
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 79 -(101|102)- 145 µ
Width: 5 -9- 13 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 145 -(234|266)- 339 µ
Width: 12 -15- 17 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 321 -(339|374) - 412 µ
Width: 19 -22- 24 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Strongyles - Subtylotes with microspined tips
Length: 164 -(216|218)-28 µ
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 16 -(20|21)- 25 µ
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Toxa
Length: 7 -(85|119)- 193 µ
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Toxa
Length: 8 -9- 13 µ
- Skeleton:
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Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Confused but with thick multispicular tracts of large Acanthostyles braced by single to few Acanthostyles. Tracts echinated by smaller Acanthostyles.
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