Excerpt from Description of New and Remarkable Fossils From the Palæozoic Rocks of the Mississippi Valley

The vault is covered with large, convex, polygonal plates and bears a subcentral proboscis. The proboscis commences with rather large tumid plates, but its length is unknown.

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