Past Palynomorphs of the Month. This is a chain-forming type without distinction between the chamber and neck. The test is wine glass to goblet shaped, with irregular sides, a concave aperture, and convex sides merging gradually into an elongated conical or cylindrical shaped copula which is constricted at its base, passing into a wide conical shaped operculum with a convex base.
Ornamentation is absent.
In the Silurian of the North African Sahara, what is described as Desmochitina elegans may in fact be considered as Desmochitina margaritana. In the Nevada study area this species of Desmochitina is distinct from all other chitinozoan species recovered due to is wine glass- goblet shape of individual vesicles. Mountains Formations in the Nevada study area. So far the species has not been recovered from the Upper Silurian - lower Sevy Formation. The copula of Desmochitina elegans is approximately twice as long as that of Desmochitina margaritana.