Favites detecta
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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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
3 occurrences of Favites detecta on record. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Favites detecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Antiguastrea alveolaris1 site
- Astrangia manthelanensis1 site
- Astrocoenia bistellata1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica1 site
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus)1 site
- Ceratotrochus (Edwardsotrochus) bellingherianus1 site
- Ceratotrochus (Edwardsotrochus) pentaradiatus1 site
- Ceratotrochus (Edwardsotrochus) subcristatus1 site
- Cladangia semispherica1 site
- Dendrophyllia1 site
- Dendrophyllia guidottii1 site
- Flabellum1 site
- Flabellum striatum1 site
- Goniopora granosa1 site
- Heliastrea (Athecastraea) vesiculosa1 site
- Lithophyllia detrita1 site
- Pavona profunda1 site
- Pavona ruvida1 site
- Porites collegniana1 site
- Trochocyathus michelottii1 site
- Turbinaria cyathiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Favites detecta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Les faunes coralliennes de l’Oligocène de Malte : biodiversité et paléoenvironnement1
- Les coraux scléractiniaires du Burdigalien supérieur du Bassin de Bonifacio (Corse-du-Sud)1
- Une faune inédite de coraux scléractiniaires dans le gisement chattien d'Escornebéou (Landes, SW France); stratigraphie, systématique et paléoécologie1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Favites detecta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Favites detecta 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.
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 timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelotti 1871)