Favia turbinata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FaviaPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Favia turbinata on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Favia turbinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Favia turbinata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Favia turbinata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Actinastrea pseudominima3 sites
- Actinastrea urgonensis2 sites
- Clausastrea alloiteaui2 sites
- Clausastrea saltensis2 sites
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi2 sites
- Cryptocoenia biedai2 sites
- Cryptocoenia fontserei2 sites
- Cyathophora pulchella2 sites
- Cyathophora steinmanni2 sites
- Dermosmilia2 sites
- Dimorphastrea tendagurensis2 sites
- Diplocoeniella gerochi2 sites
- Ellipsocoenia lorioli2 sites
- Eosiderastrea cuyleri2 sites
- Etallonasteria minima2 sites
- Eugyra (Felixigyra)2 sites
- Eugyra lanckoronensis2 sites
- Eugyra pusilla rariseptata2 sites
- Felixigyra duncani2 sites
- Heliocoenia rozkowskae2 sites
- Holocystis bukowinensis2 sites
- Latusastrea decipiens2 sites
- Latusastrea exiguis2 sites
- Latusastrea provincialis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Favia turbinata, 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
5 references- Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects2
- Hexacoralla des Couches de Grodziszcze (Neocomien, Carpathes) [Hexacorals from the Grodziszcze Beds (Neocomian, Carpathians)]2
- Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic scleractinian corals from Tibet1
- Cretaceous and Paleogene corals of the Ukraine1
- Monographie des Polypiers Crétacés de la Suisse [Monograph of cretaceous corals from Switzerland]1
Each of the 7 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. 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 content1
Picture of Favia turbinata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Favia turbinata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFavia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fromentel 1857)