Favosites favosus

Favosites favosus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FavositesPBDB
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 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 38 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 37 of 38 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 38 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 4 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.1 Mya425 Mya459 Mya418.8 Mya

38 occurrences of Favosites favosus 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

38 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

17 formations

Khandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBrassfield — 37.66°N, 84.12°WBrassfield — 39.48°N, 83.86°WBrassfield — 37.80°N, 84.09°WBrassfield — 37.72°N, 83.98°WChicotte — 49.50°N, 63.00°WChicotte — 49.40°N, 63.60°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.75°N, 98.58°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.60°N, 98.70°WBerge — 63.15°N, 14.37°EBerge — 63.17°N, 14.30°EKuranakh — 62.85°N, 138.15°ELa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.84°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WShemaha — 55.00°N, 60.00°EEast Arm Dolomite — 53.80°N, 100.30°WMont Wissick — 47.67°N, 68.83°WAktash — 51.58°N, 89.67°EDevalak — 34.35°N, 68.45°EAllen Bay — 74.69°N, 94.80°WMoyerokan — 67.31°N, 103.83°E

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The named rock units Favosites favosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favosites favosus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Favosites favosus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

277 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Favosites favosus, 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

18 references

Each of the 38 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. 6 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 content2

Picture of Favosites favosus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itFavosites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1826