Favites acuticollis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FavitesPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Favites acuticollis 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
12 occurrences- Miocene8%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene79%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
6 formations
- Chaya Formation3
- Salayar Formation1
- Tokelau Formation1
- Togopi Formation1
- Samadai Formation1
- Farasan Formation1
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The named rock units Favites acuticollis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Favites acuticollis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Favites acuticollis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Acropora2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Acar plicata1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Acropora salundensis1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Astreopora1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca1 site
- Bursa granularis1 site
- Cardita variegata1 site
- Cardium rugosum gortanii1 site
- Caulastrea connata1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cerithium caeruleum1 site
- Cerithium erythraeonense1 site
- Cerithium rueppelli savignyi1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chlamys sanguinolenta1 site
- Circe pectinata1 site
- Cladocora caespitosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Favites acuticollis, 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
9 references- Taxonomic Study of Faviidae Family- Quaternary Corals of Okha-Mandal Taluka, Saurashtra Coast, Gujarat2
- Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast2
- Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene2
- Pliocene corals from the Togopi Formation of the Dent Peninsula, Sabah, northeastern Borneo, Malaysia1
- Pleistocene Reefs of the Red Sea Coast, Sudan: Depositional Environments, Fossil Coral, Age Dating and Diagenesis1
- Identification of fossil corals inhabiting an uplifted area of Ras Gunz near Jiwani, Balochistan, Pakistan1
- Early Pliocene - Holocene Favia from the northern and northwestern coastal areas of Saurashtra Peninsula, western India1
- Contributions to the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Red Sea coast, Egypt1
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)1
Each of the 12 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 Favites acuticollis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Favites acuticollis 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 itFavites through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ortmann 1889)