Dyscritella
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''Dyscritella'' is an extinct genus of trepostome
bryozoa Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a l ...
n that was highly successful in the late Triassic period, re-colonizing high latitudes in the northern hemisphere after the extinction of earlier bryozoan genera. ''Dyscritella'' was an "ecological opportunist" and widely distributed, found in every climatic belt.


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{{Taxonbar, from=Q111296217 Trepostomata Prehistoric bryozoan genera