Variabilifavia confertissima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VariabilifaviaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
18 occurrences of Variabilifavia confertissima on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
18 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 Variabilifavia confertissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Variabilifavia confertissima and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Variabilifavia confertissima and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Astrocoenia lobatorotundata11 sites
- Actinacis rollei10 sites
- Alveopora rudis10 sites
- Antiguastrea10 sites
- Astreopora meneghiniana10 sites
- Pavona10 sites
- Favia subdenticulata9 sites
- Porites9 sites
- Acropora haidingeri8 sites
- Astreopora tecta8 sites
- Colpophyllia8 sites
- Montastrea inaequalis8 sites
- Porites nummulitica8 sites
- Astrocoenia laminosa5 sites
- Parapolytremacis bellardii5 sites
- Euphyllia crassiramosa4 sites
- Tarbellastraea anomala4 sites
- Antiguastrea lucasiana3 sites
- Caulastrea pseudoflabellum3 sites
- Cladocora prolifera3 sites
- Montastrea irradians3 sites
- Pattalophyllia grumi3 sites
- Stylophora thirsiformis3 sites
- Acropora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Variabilifavia confertissima, 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
8 references- Systematische und paläoökologische Untersuchungen an oligozänen Korallen der Umgebung von San Luca (Provinz Vicenza, Norditalien) [Systematic and paleoecologic studies of Oligocene corals from San Luca area (Vicenza, northern Italy)]10
- Coral fauna and facies of the Oligocene friniging reef near Cairo Montenotte (Liguria, Northern Italy)2
- Resilient coral reef ecosystems: The case study of turbid-mesophotic coral buildups during the Late Oligocene Warming Event (Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy)1
- A coral hotspot from a hot past: The EECO and post-EECO rich reef coral fauna from Friuli (Eocene, NE Italy)1
- The Oligocene coral and red algae reef of Maddalena (Sassellino, Savona)1
- Geologie, Paläontologie und Palökologie der südostbayerischen unter-priabonen (Ober-Eozän) Riffkalkvorkommen bei Hallthurm (Nördliche Kalkalpen) und der Kirchbergs bei Neubeuern (Helvetikum)1
- Paläoökologie des oligozänen Korallenvorkommens von Cascine südlich Acqui (Piemont, Norditalien) [Paleoecology of the Oligocene coral fauna from Cascine south of Acqui (Piemont, Italy)]1
- Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen, 1: Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichten von Castelgomberto [Paleontological studies about the older Tertiary beds in the Alps, 1: The fossil Anthozoa from the Castelcomberto Formation]1
Each of the 18 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
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No picture of Variabilifavia confertissima was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Variabilifavia confertissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Variabilifavia confertissima 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 itVariabilifavia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1868)