Favistella

Favistella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StauriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 53 of 55 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 55 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 55 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 6 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 10 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 10 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 10 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 9 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 6 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.2 Mya410.62 Mya473 Mya392 Mya

55 occurrences of Favistella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

55 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

20 formations

Waynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 38.00°N, 85.50°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WChasm Creek — 58.13°N, 94.77°WChasm Creek — 56.63°N, 93.63°WBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EDzerom — 67.37°N, 104.10°EElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WChangwu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EBeiguoshan — 36.00°N, 106.00°EKoumengzi — 38.00°N, 102.00°EGulang — 38.00°N, 102.00°ENansimengzi — 39.00°N, 99.00°EZagornyi — 68.00°N, 88.00°EKouMengZhi — 35.00°N, 105.00°EAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WSeewarte Kalk — 46.50°N, 13.00°EGeorgian Bay — 43.67°N, 79.42°WCarters Limestone — 35.02°N, 86.93°WJohnson Spring — 36.93°N, 118.07°W

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The named rock units Favistella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favistella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Favistella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

511 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Favistella, 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

16 references

Each of the 55 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. 4 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 content2

Picture of Favistella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1846