Favositella

Favositella is an extinct genus of bryozoans from the Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian periods.

Favositella

Mai Seppel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
CeramoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.4 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 464.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 21 of 26 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 26 occurrencesSilurian465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461.4 Mya426.7 Mya465.1 Mya421.9 Mya

26 occurrences of Favositella 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

26 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

18 formations

Bobcaygeon — 44.56°N, 78.98°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WDecorah Shale — 42.50°N, 91.25°WKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EChokusu — 49.13°N, 88.37°EMannie — 35.50°N, 86.50°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WQuimbys Mill — 42.50°N, 91.25°WSpechts Ferry — 42.50°N, 91.25°WGuttenberg — 42.50°N, 91.25°WCummingsville — 43.50°N, 91.50°WRusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°EFranopol' — 52.00°N, 24.00°EBeiguoshan — 35.00°N, 107.00°EDuanjiaxia — 35.00°N, 107.00°ETaoqipo — 35.00°N, 109.00°EVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EMednikovo — 59.77°N, 30.33°E

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The named rock units Favositella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favositella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Favositella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

560 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Favositella, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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 Favositella

Credit
Mai Seppel
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Favositella 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

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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. Etheridge and Foord 1884