Paleofavosites

Paleofavosites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FavositidaePBDB
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 190 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Ordovician — about 132 of 509 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 375 of 509 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 509 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 509 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 509 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 509 occurrences476–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–446 Mya — about 76 occurrences446–438 Mya — about 286 occurrences438–430 Mya — about 96 occurrences430–423 Mya — about 42 occurrences423–415 Mya — about 3 occurrences415–408 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450.2 Mya259.857 Mya476 Mya250 Mya

509 occurrences of Paleofavosites 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

509 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

98 formations

Tamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.47°ETamsalu — 58.87°N, 22.97°ETamsalu — 58.93°N, 23.75°ETamsalu — 59.00°N, 25.92°ETamsalu — 59.06°N, 25.14°ETamsalu — 59.07°N, 24.80°ETamsalu — 58.48°N, 26.38°ETamsalu — 58.61°N, 25.56°ETamsalu — 59.05°N, 24.45°ETamsalu — 59.14°N, 26.13°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.43°ETamsalu — 59.05°N, 24.70°ETamsalu — 58.84°N, 23.06°ETamsalu — 59.16°N, 26.09°ETamsalu — 59.06°N, 24.95°ETamsalu — 59.21°N, 26.64°ETamsalu — 58.99°N, 26.35°ETamsalu — 58.68°N, 26.09°EKuranakh — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKuranakh — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKuranakh — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKuranakh — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKuranakh — 62.85°N, 138.15°EÄrina — 59.19°N, 26.20°EÄrina — 58.86°N, 24.08°EÄrina — 58.74°N, 24.08°EBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 47.32°N, 70.57°WBecscie — 49.70°N, 63.99°WBecscie — 49.47°N, 63.62°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBecscie — 49.72°N, 64.05°WChasm Creek — 58.17°N, 94.67°WChasm Creek — 58.13°N, 94.77°WChasm Creek — 58.25°N, 94.57°WChasm Creek — 56.63°N, 93.63°WBaraniy — 63.40°N, 136.68°EBaraniy — 60.15°N, 137.10°EBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.85°N, 138.15°EBrassfield — 38.73°N, 83.61°WBrassfield — 39.78°N, 83.96°WBrassfield — 38.82°N, 83.51°WBrassfield — 39.48°N, 83.86°WBrassfield — 41.13°N, 84.23°WBrassfield — 39.97°N, 84.32°WBrassfield — 39.78°N, 84.86°WBrassfield — 38.14°N, 85.53°WBrassfield — 39.26°N, 83.75°WBrassfield — 37.72°N, 83.98°WStonewall — 50.13°N, 97.32°WInwood — 53.17°N, 99.28°WHilliste — 58.88°N, 23.02°EFisher Branch Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 50.68°N, 97.53°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WFisher Branch Dolomite — 50.13°N, 97.32°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.58°N, 98.83°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.14°N, 99.45°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.70°N, 100.30°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 99.50°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.24°N, 99.52°WAktash — 51.72°N, 90.40°EAktash — 51.58°N, 89.67°EEast Arm Dolomite — 53.80°N, 100.30°WEast Arm Dolomite — 51.08°N, 97.62°WMont Wissick — 47.67°N, 68.83°WAdila — 58.86°N, 24.08°EAdila — 58.74°N, 24.08°EAdila — 58.97°N, 23.16°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°ECaution Creek — 57.97°N, 94.87°WCaution Creek — 58.55°N, 95.13°WVaureal — 49.62°N, 62.67°WVaureal — 49.78°N, 63.30°WVaureal — 49.57°N, 63.15°WVaureal — 49.87°N, 64.52°WManitoulin — 45.83°N, 82.33°WManitoulin — 45.97°N, 81.93°WManitoulin — 45.73°N, 81.80°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 48.67°N, 65.83°WLower Wengxiang — 26.50°N, 108.00°EVaureal and Ellis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°W

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The named rock units Paleofavosites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 156 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paleofavosites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Paleofavosites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 286 sites for Paleofavosites, and this reads 240 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

83 references

Each of the 509 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. 71 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 Paleofavosites

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CC0
Commercial use
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Twenhofel 1914