Small, plump Austrognatharia (length 628.13 µm, width 97.50 µm; index 6.47) with stout rostrum (index 0.88). Basal plate 6.28 µm long and 22.72 µm wide (index 0.28), with medium-high lateral lobes; 9.94 teeth arranged in 5 groups, with the lateral group made up of 2 teeth. Jaws 22.94 µm long, with one tooth in dorsal and 4.04 unequal teeth in ventral row. Conuli 30.86 µm long and 19.81 µm wide (index 1.57), jellyfish-like, with a more or less semicircualr capitulum and a tapering, often curved cone. Penis curved. With ability to encyst. (Sterrer 1998:150).
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