Favia africana
No picture of Favia africana 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 Favia africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FaviaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB, for Faviidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Faviidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Faviidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Favia africana 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 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.
Favia africana and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Favia africana and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Circophyllia1 site
- Circophyllia farquharsoni1 site
- Columastrea1 site
- Diploastrea1 site
- Favia somaliensis1 site
- Goniopora microsiderea1 site
- Heliastrea farquharsoni1 site
- Hydnophora rudis1 site
- Leptoria1 site
- Montastrea irradians1 site
- Monticulastraea insignis1 site
- Monticulastraea solidior1 site
- Platygyra concentrica1 site
- Plesiastrea grayi1 site
- Porites1 site
- Porites multilamellata1 site
- Sirenia1 site
- Stylophora africana1 site
- Stylophora conferta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Favia africana, 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
2 references- The Oligo-Miocene of Eil (NE Somalia): a prograding coral-Lepidocyclina system1
- Jurassic and Kainozoic corals from Somaliland1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Favia africana 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 Favia africana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Favia africana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFavia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latham 1929