Favosites serratus
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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 most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 433.5 Mya and 431.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Favosites serratus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Favosites serratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Favosites serratus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Favosites serratus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Favosites jaaniensis3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Favosites favosus2 sites
- Meristina2 sites
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Cyrtia1 site
- Dalejina hybrida1 site
- Dalejina phaseola1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Eodictyonella capewellii1 site
- Eospirifer radiatus1 site
- Favosites desolatus1 site
- Favosites forbesi1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Halysites senior1 site
- Hesperorthis davidsoni1 site
- Howellella1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) purpurea1 site
- Mesofavosites imbellis1 site
- Mesofavosites secundus1 site
- Neoplatystrophia jaaniensis1 site
- Palaeofavosites septosus1 site
- Palaeofavosites suurikuensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Favosites serratus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Favosites serratus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Favosites serratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Favosites serratus 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 SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1952