Dyscritellina grandiscapia Gorjunova and Morozova 1979 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae

Full reference: R. V. Gorjunova and I. P. Morozova. 1979. Late Paleozoic Bryozoa of Mongolia. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, Transaction 9:1-139

Belongs to Dyscritellina according to I. P. Morozova 1991

See also Gorjunova and Morozova 1979

Sister taxa: Dyscritellina aculeata, Dyscritellina arctica, Dyscritellina clivosa, Dyscritellina exilaporata, Dyscritellina fuglensis, Dyscritellina grandicora, Dyscritellina invisitata, Dyscritellina megacanthi, Dyscritellina multispinosa, Dyscritellina neospinigera, Dyscritellina permiana, Dyscritellina ramosa, Dyscritellina septata, Dyscritellina tecta

Type specimen: PIN 2287/779. Its type locality is Tolyyn Tszo Khid (25 km ENE), 60 km W of Khubsugul Mountain, which is in a Capitanian marine horizon in the Solonker Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Tolyyn Tszo Khid (25 km ENE), 60 km W of Khubsugul Mountain

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