Favites

Favites is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Members of this genus are native to the Indo-Pacific region and their ranges extend from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean as far as Japan, the Line Islands and the Tuamotu Islands.

Favites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 549 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 549 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 549 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 549 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 549 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 549 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 47 of 549 occurrencesMiocene — about 131 of 549 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 49 of 549 occurrencesPleistocene — about 272 of 549 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 8 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 54 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 56 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 39 occurrences11–5.5 Mya — about 24 occurrences5.5–0 Mya — about 361 occurrences145.06 Mya11.7 ka165 Mya0 Mya

549 occurrences of Favites 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

549 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

69 formations

Chaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ESamadai — 25.00°N, 34.93°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°ESamadai — 25.15°N, 34.85°ECastro Limestone — 40.00°N, 18.43°ERudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°ERudeis — 27.62°N, 33.37°ERudeis — 26.12°N, 34.18°ERudeis — 24.80°N, 35.02°ERudeis — 24.42°N, 35.20°ETermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EQom — 34.64°N, 50.72°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ECala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°EBoat Cove — 29.28°S, 177.85°WBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WAntigua — 17.14°N, 61.82°WAntigua — 17.05°N, 61.73°WGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ERiukiu limestone — 23.00°N, 122.00°EEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WNias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 0.92°N, 97.63°ENias — 1.35°N, 97.25°EBakhtiari — 32.06°N, 50.81°ETorre Specchialaguardia Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.48°E

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The named rock units Favites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 345 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favites and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Favites and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Favites, 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

151 references

Each of the 549 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. 139 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 Favites

Credit
Josuevg
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1807