Girtyporina mongoliensis Morozova 1970 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cryptostomida - Girtyporidae

Full reference: I. P. Morozova. 1970. Nekotorye novye pozdnepermskie mshanki yugo-vostochnoy Mongolii. Novye Vidy Paleozoyskikh Mshanok i Korallov 69-75

Belongs to Girtyporina according to I. P. Morozova 1991

See also Gorjunova and Morozova 1979 and Morozova 1970

Sister taxa: Girtyporina applicata, Girtyporina asiatica, Girtyporina crassa, Girtyporina flexuosa, Girtyporina gorjunovae, Girtyporina immemorata, Girtyporina incrustans, Girtyporina lenocinata, Girtyporina maritima

Type specimen: PIN 2287/389. Its type locality is Khoyar-Khuduk Well, 125 km SW 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 Khoyar-Khuduk Well, 125 km SW of Khubsugul Mountain

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