Favia aquitaniensis
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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 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Favia aquitaniensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Favia aquitaniensis 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.
Favia aquitaniensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Favia aquitaniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Porites2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora exarata1 site
- Acropora lavandulina1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Amphistegina1 site
- Borelis1 site
- Caulastrea matheroni1 site
- Chamberlainium1 site
- Favia melitae1 site
- Favites neugeboreni1 site
- Favites neugeboreni burdigalensis1 site
- Goniastrea1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Halimeda1 site
- Heliastrea grandis1 site
- Heliastrea saucatsensis1 site
- Hydnophora provincialis1 site
- Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)1 site
- Leptomussa falloti1 site
- Lithophyllia michelotti1 site
- Lithophyllum1 site
- Lithoporella1 site
- Mesophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Favia aquitaniensis, 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
3 references- Microfacies evidence for the evolution of Miocene coral-reef environments in Cyprus1
- Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène1
- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]1
Each of the 3 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 Favia aquitaniensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Favia aquitaniensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itFavia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961