Pachyfavosites

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Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
117 occurrences of Pachyfavosites 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
117 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
47 formations
- Combe Martin Slates Formation · Infracombe Slates Group8
- Amain Formation5
- Sin Ghar Formation5
- Ertang Formation4
- Kürten Formation4
- Turkparida Formation4
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The named rock units Pachyfavosites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pachyfavosites and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pachyfavosites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
597 taxa- Thamnopora31 sites
- Alveolites26 sites
- Favosites26 sites
- Crinoidea15 sites
- Squameofavosites13 sites
- Tryplasma13 sites
- Favosites goldfussi11 sites
- Cladopora10 sites
- Bryozoa8 sites
- Platyaxum8 sites
- Stromatopora8 sites
- Stromatoporella8 sites
- Actinostroma7 sites
- Aulopora7 sites
- Syringopora7 sites
- Athyris6 sites
- Atrypa6 sites
- Caliapora6 sites
- Heliolites6 sites
- Howellella6 sites
- Lissatrypa6 sites
- Parallelostroma6 sites
- Pseudamplexus6 sites
- Pseudomicroplasma6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Pachyfavosites, 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
41 references- Daunton i nizhniy devon Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti. The Downtonian and lower Devonian of the Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region.11
- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores10
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19888
- Edmonds et al., 19858
- Stratigraphy and facies of the Middle Paleozoic of parts of southern Tien-Shan in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan7
- Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]7
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska7
- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected5
- Zur stratigraphischen Verteilung tabulater Korallen im Mittel-Devon der Sötenicher Mulde (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Nord-Eifel)4
- Tabulate corals from the Givetian and Frasnian of the Holy Cross Mountains and Silesian Upland4
- Tyazheva et al., 19764
- Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]3
Each of the 117 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. 29 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 Pachyfavosites
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.