Faviidae

Mussidae is a family of stony coral in the order Scleractinia. Following a taxonomic revision in 2012, the family is now restricted to species found in the Atlantic Ocean, with Pacific species transferred to the new family Lobophylliidae. Many species are referred to as brain coral because their generally spheroid form and grooved surface resembles the convolutions of a brain.

Faviidae

NOAA - Frank and Joyce Burek · Public Domain · 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
FaviicaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 846 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 846 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 846 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 846 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 846 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 846 occurrencesEocene — about 34 of 846 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 45 of 846 occurrencesMiocene — about 237 of 846 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 86 of 846 occurrencesPleistocene — about 343 of 846 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 5 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 4 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 4 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 10 occurrences119–113 Mya — about 8 occurrences113–106 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 23 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 26 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 63 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 103 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 62 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 497 occurrences174.7 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

846 occurrences of Faviidae 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

846 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

126 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.52°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.08°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.15°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WSobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ECercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.08°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WNaha — 26.41°N, 127.74°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°EIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.31°WIsla Colon — 9.31°N, 82.14°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.28°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.28°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WMao — 19.67°N, 71.40°WMao — 19.52°N, 71.13°WSalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ETermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WImperial — 33.02°N, 116.07°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WImperial — 32.80°N, 116.07°WImperial — 32.87°N, 115.98°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WRudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°ERudeis — 27.62°N, 33.37°ERudeis — 24.42°N, 35.20°ERudeis — 29.12°N, 33.22°ETamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 27.32°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EGrodziszcze — 49.95°N, 19.85°EPakhna — 34.97°N, 34.07°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°EOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°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°W

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The named rock units Faviidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 102 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 429 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Faviidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Faviidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 300 sites for Faviidae, and this reads 240 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

240 references

Each of the 846 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. 228 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 content1

Picture of Faviidae

Credit
NOAA - Frank and Joyce Burek
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Faviidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itFaviicae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gregory 1900