Favosites

Favosites is an extinct genus of tabulate coral characterized by polygonal closely packed corallites. The walls between corallites are pierced by pores known as mural pores which allowed transfer of nutrients between polyps. Favosites, like many corals, thrived in warm sunlit seas, feeding by filtering microscopic plankton with their stinging tentacles and often forming part of reef complexes. The genus had a worldwide distribution from the Late Ordovician to Late Permian.

Favosites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FavositinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 188 million years on record.

The record covers at least 455 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 49 of 1808 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 892 of 1808 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 856 of 1808 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 1808 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 1808 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1808 occurrences462–455 Mya — about 10 occurrences455–448 Mya — about 25 occurrences448–441 Mya — about 61 occurrences441–434 Mya — about 279 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 361 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 208 occurrences419–412 Mya — about 167 occurrences412–405 Mya — about 145 occurrences405–398 Mya — about 88 occurrences398–391 Mya — about 136 occurrences391–384 Mya — about 249 occurrences384–377 Mya — about 54 occurrences377–369 Mya — about 7 occurrences369–362 Mya — about 4 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 2 occurrences355–348 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–284 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences284–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455 Mya266.9 Mya462 Mya248 Mya

1,808 occurrences of Favosites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

1,808 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

389 formations

Khandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKhandyg — 62.85°N, 138.15°EOnondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WOnondaga — 42.97°N, 77.85°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 75.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 76.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 74.67°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 77.36°WRead Bay — 73.25°N, 93.50°WRead Bay — 75.00°N, 95.00°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.68°N, 94.16°WRead Bay — 74.73°N, 94.94°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.82°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.43°WRead Bay — 74.68°N, 93.48°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WVaughn Gulch — 36.90°N, 118.07°WKuranakh — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKuranakh — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKuranakh — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKuranakh — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKuranakh — 62.85°N, 138.15°EMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°ESkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.83°N, 75.02°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WBrassfield — 37.66°N, 84.12°WBrassfield — 39.78°N, 83.96°WBrassfield — 39.86°N, 84.55°WBrassfield — 38.82°N, 83.51°WBrassfield — 39.48°N, 83.86°WBrassfield — 39.97°N, 84.32°WBrassfield — 39.78°N, 84.86°WBrassfield — 37.80°N, 84.09°WBrassfield — 38.22°N, 83.63°WBrassfield — 37.72°N, 83.98°WBrassfield — 39.99°N, 84.35°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.58°N, 98.83°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.14°N, 99.45°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.70°N, 100.30°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 100.00°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.75°N, 98.58°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 50.70°N, 98.03°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.00°N, 98.83°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.60°N, 98.70°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WWinnipegosis — 52.96°N, 100.90°WWinnipegosis — 52.92°N, 100.97°WWinnipegosis — 52.86°N, 100.81°WWinnipegosis — 52.87°N, 100.68°WWinnipegosis — 52.81°N, 100.74°WWinnipegosis — 52.82°N, 100.84°WWinnipegosis — 52.79°N, 100.95°WWinnipegosis — 51.58°N, 99.54°WWinnipegosis — 51.13°N, 98.75°WSteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°ESteinsfjorden — 60.17°N, 10.30°EScotch Grove — 40.00°N, 97.00°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.15°N, 90.68°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WNa Quan — 22.68°N, 106.67°ENa Quan — 22.23°N, 106.18°EMcCann Hill — 65.00°N, 141.01°WMcCann Hill — 65.13°N, 141.44°WMcCann Hill — 65.27°N, 141.65°WMcCann Hill — 65.35°N, 141.05°WMcCann Hill — 64.95°N, 141.08°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WRochester — 43.16°N, 79.05°WRochester — 43.18°N, 78.72°WRochester — 43.22°N, 77.02°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WRochester — 43.22°N, 76.81°WRochester — 43.25°N, 76.64°WRochester — 43.15°N, 75.86°WBan Pap — 21.18°N, 105.07°EBan Pap — 21.43°N, 104.12°EMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.15°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WSiyak — 53.10°N, 57.43°ESiyak — 52.97°N, 57.02°ENizhnemagianskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EMont Wissick — 47.67°N, 68.83°W

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The named rock units Favosites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 365 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 356 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favosites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Favosites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,523 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,047 sites for Favosites, and this reads 240 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

303 references

Each of the 1,808 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. 291 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 content1

Picture of Favosites

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Favosites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Lamarck 1816