Favia fragum

Favia fragrum is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Mussidae. It is commonly known as the golfball coral and is found in tropical waters on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Favia fragum

T. Wayland Vaughan · Public Domain · 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
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 least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 86 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 86 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 86 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 77 of 86 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 63 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

86 occurrences of Favia fragum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

86 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

10 formations

Ironshore — 19.28°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.15°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WHato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHato — 12.20°N, 69.08°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.31°WKey Largo Limestone — 25.13°N, 80.38°WKey Largo Limestone — 24.93°N, 80.58°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WLowlands — 18.05°N, 63.13°W

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The named rock units Favia fragum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favia fragum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Favia fragum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Favia fragum, 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

19 references

Each of the 86 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. 7 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 content3

Picture of Favia fragum

Credit
T. Wayland Vaughan
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Favia fragum

3D model

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

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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What may have been alongside itFavia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Esper 1795)