Favites mexicana
No picture of Favites mexicana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Favites mexicana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Favites mexicana on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group1
- San Fernando Formation1
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The named rock units Favites mexicana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Favites mexicana and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Favites mexicana and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Acropora panamensis1 site
- Acropora saludensis1 site
- Actinacis barretti1 site
- Agathiphyllia1 site
- Agathiphyllia hilli1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Alveopora tampae1 site
- Antiguastrea cellulosa1 site
- Antillia hadleyi1 site
- Astrocoenia incrustans1 site
- Astrocoenia portoricoensis1 site
- Caulastrea1 site
- Caulastrea portoricensis1 site
- Colpophyllia duncani1 site
- Colpophyllia willoughbiensis1 site
- Diploastrea1 site
- Diploastrea crassolamellata1 site
- Diploria portoricensis1 site
- Favites polygonalis1 site
- Gardineroseris1 site
- Goniastrea1 site
- Goniopora imperatoris1 site
- Goniopora panamensis1 site
- Hydnophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Favites mexicana, 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
2 references- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica1
- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Favites mexicana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Favites mexicana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Favites mexicana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFavites through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1919