Pyrisinella meniscacantha Taylor and McKinney 2006 (bryozoan)

Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Pyrisinellidae

Alternative combination: Setosinella meniscacantha

Belongs to Pyrisinella according to E. Di Martino and P. D. Taylor 2012

Sister taxon: Pyrisinella primazelandiae

Type specimen: NHM BZ 4796(1a). Its type locality is East side of Jaycee Park Road, Livingston (AL6), which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate chalk in the Prairie Bluff Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at East side of Jaycee Park Road, Livingston (AL6)

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