Favites pentagona

Favites pentagona is a species of stony coral in the family Merulinidae, sometimes known as larger star coral. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region and its range extends from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific Ocean. This is a common species throughout its wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".

Favites pentagona

Josuevg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
FavitesPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 41 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 28 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–955 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Favites pentagona on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

41 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

8 formations

Salayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EChaya — 22.44°N, 69.01°EYalam — 4.47°S, 151.88°ETokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°E

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The named rock units Favites pentagona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Favites pentagona and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Favites pentagona and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Favites pentagona, 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 41 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 content1

Picture of Favites pentagona

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

No 3D scan of Favites pentagona 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.

The description on this site

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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 itFavites through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Esper 1794)