The anterior region is interpreted as being made of nine segments separated by thinner membranes (rather than as a single unit with multiple openings).

Skeemella has a narrow, worm-shaped rear section with 43 segments in holotype specimen, identified as tergites separated by flexible membranes.

The rear section terminates in what appears to be an arthropod telson, an elongate, unsegmented flattened structure that ends in two backward-pointing spines.

[2] Skeemella shows typical vetulicolian features, such as a body divided into two distinct parts: a wider torpedo-shaped front end and a segmented rear section interpreted as the muscular driver for an active swimming lifestyle.

Skeemella is one of a number of unrelated "platypus problems"; early lagerstätten fossils that have seemed to mix features of chordates and arthropods, two animal clades considered very distant from each other.