Favosites limitaris

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- FavositesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
6 occurrences of Favosites limitaris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Favosites limitaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Favosites limitaris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Favosites limitaris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Atrypa reticularis5 sites
- Spirifer5 sites
- Chonetes3 sites
- Cladopora3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Cyathophyllum3 sites
- Favosites basalticus3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Viaphacops cristatus3 sites
- Amphigenia elongata2 sites
- Bethanyphyllum2 sites
- Breviphrentis2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Cystiphylloides2 sites
- Diphyphyllum2 sites
- Elita2 sites
- Favosites canadensis2 sites
- Favosites hemispherica2 sites
- Favosites turbinata2 sites
- Heliophyllum2 sites
- Heterophrentis2 sites
- Hindia sphaeroidalis2 sites
- Levenea lenticularis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Favosites limitaris, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in Central New York2
- The Devonian of California2
- Map and table describing fossil collections and related samples in the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert Quadrangles, southeastern Alaska1
- Onondaga Paint-Ore Fauna from Pennsylvania1
Each of the 6 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 Favosites limitaris
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Favosites limitaris 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 itFavosites through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rominger 1876