Tempoviator peculiaris

“Peculiar time-traveler”
Kingdom
Microsynthera
Phylum
Plasticae
Class
Lepistomella
Order
Chronovora
Family
Tempotortidae
Genus
Tempoviator
Species
T. peculiaris
External morphology

Super small. Wide lateral bulges at aboral edge. Size 7.3 mm x 6.2 mm.

Specimen found in Cowra, NSW by occlupanid-artisan S. Nottingham in 2025, and given the name Tempotortus rimula. The curious oral groove is somewhat similar to that of T. malleofidus… but a colleague from the Heung-shing Expeditionary Lab for Occlupanology (HELO) noted that it resembled a similar specimen submitted by the Dry Water Occlupanid Research Center, some years ago. A team from the accessions department was dispatched to the archives, with the task recovering the half-remembered miniscule micro-tile, wherever it may have hidden itself. In short order the hazily-recollected microsyntheran was dredged up from the correspondence archives of 2019 to reveal.. a perfect match. The same species, submitted, filed, and forgotten, only to reappear 6 years later. While it has been conjectured that these ‘fissurous’ chronovorids might constitute their own family within the Chronovora, Leptistomellan morphology is still a poorly-understood science, and more studies have been recommended. Discovered and described by C. Huning (DWORC)