Favites valenciennesii
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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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
14 occurrences of Favites valenciennesii 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
14 occurrences- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene84%
- Holocene7%
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
3 formations
- Naha Formation · Ryukyu Group2
- Riukiu Limestone Formation1
- Takanasaki Formation · Ryukyu Group1
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The named rock units Favites valenciennesii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Favites valenciennesii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Favites valenciennesii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Cyphastrea microphthalma4 sites
- Goniastrea pectinata4 sites
- Leptoria phrygia4 sites
- Acropora3 sites
- Astrea curta3 sites
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum3 sites
- Dipsastraea speciosa3 sites
- Platygyra lamellina3 sites
- Porites3 sites
- Symphyllia recta3 sites
- Acanthastrea hemprichii2 sites
- Acropora robusta2 sites
- Alveopora verrilliana2 sites
- Astreopora gracilis2 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites2 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis2 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
- Heliopora2 sites
- Hydnophora exesa2 sites
- Montipora2 sites
- Oulophyllia crispa2 sites
- Platygyra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Favites valenciennesii, 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
7 references- Limited membership in Pleistocene reef coral assemblages from the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea: constancy during global change6
- Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan2
- Geological and geographical distribution of reef-corals in Japan2
- Interstadial coral reef terraces and relative sea-level changes during marine oxygen isotope stages 3-4, Kikai Island, central Ryukyus, Japan1
- Model of fringing reef development in response to progressive sea level fall over the last 7000 years (Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan)1
- Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
- On some reef-building Corals of a Raised Coral Reef of Mindanao, Philippine Islands1
Each of the 14 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 Favites valenciennesii
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Favites valenciennesii was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFavites through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)