Basyaylella

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Basyaylella is an extinct genus of bryozoans, small colonial animals related to moss animals. It lived in what is now Turkey during the late Tortonian stage of the Miocene.

It was described in 2012 by Kamil Zágoršek and Dennis P. Gordon, and the type species is Basyaylella elsae. The genus name honors Başyayla, the place where the fossils were found, and the species name honors Elsa Gliozzi, who collected the material.

Taxonomic classification:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Bryozoa
- Class: Gymnolaemata
- Order: Cheilostomida
- Suborder: Neocheilostomatina
- Infraorder: Ascophora
- Genus: Basyaylella (monotypic)
- Species: Basyaylella elsae