Favia

Favia is a genus of reef-building stony corals in the family Mussidae. Members of the genus are massive or thickly encrusting colonial corals, either dome-shaped or flat, and a few are foliaceous. There is a great diversity of form even among individuals of the same species. The corallites project slightly above the surface of the coral and each has its own wall. In most species, the corallites are plocoid and in some, monocentric. The septa and costae linked to the corallite wall are well developed and covered by fine teeth. The polyps only extend and feed during the night. Each one has a small number of tapering tentacles which often have a darker coloured tip; these are called stinger tentacles, or sweeper tentacles. They use these to sweep the water to see if any other coral is in its area; if so, then they begin to sting the other coral. This is commonly known as coral war. Each coral is trying to make sure it has enough room around it so it can continue to grow and have more surface area for its offspring. The columella is parietal and spongy, and there are vesicles on both the endotheca and exotheca. Members of this genus are widespread in both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific.

Favia

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FaviidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB, for Faviidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Faviidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Faviidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 477 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 477 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 477 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 477 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 477 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 477 occurrencesEocene — about 25 of 477 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 477 occurrencesMiocene — about 89 of 477 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 477 occurrencesPleistocene — about 237 of 477 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 4 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 8 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 7 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–42 Mya — about 8 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 11 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 13 occurrences30–24 Mya — about 23 occurrences24–18 Mya — about 35 occurrences18–12 Mya — about 45 occurrences12–5.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences5.9–0 Mya — about 290 occurrences168.6 Mya11.7 ka178 Mya0 Mya

477 occurrences of Favia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

477 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

84 formations

Ironshore — 19.28°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.15°WSalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°EQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WSobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ERudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°ERudeis — 27.62°N, 33.37°ERudeis — 24.42°N, 35.20°ERudeis — 29.12°N, 33.22°EHato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHato — 12.20°N, 69.08°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.31°WMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°ENaha — 26.41°N, 127.74°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°EKey Largo Limestone — 25.13°N, 80.38°WKey Largo Limestone — 24.93°N, 80.58°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EGrodziszcze — 49.95°N, 19.85°ESubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°EPakhna — 34.97°N, 34.07°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WImperial — 33.02°N, 116.07°WImperial — 32.87°N, 115.98°WMoshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.28°WMao — 19.52°N, 71.13°WCala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°EMut — 36.83°N, 33.47°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ECastro Limestone — 40.00°N, 18.42°E

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The named rock units Favia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 269 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Favia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,501 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 171 sites for Favia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

170 references

Each of the 477 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 158 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Favia

Credit
Diego Delso
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Favia danai

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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