Favosites
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Favosites is an extinct genus of tabulate coral characterized by polygonal closely packed corallites (giving it the common name "honeycomb coral").[1] The walls between corallites are pierced by pores known as mural pores which allowed transfer of nutrients between polyps. Favosites, like many corals, thrived in warm sunlit seas, feeding by filtering microscopic plankton with their stinging tentacles and often forming part of reef complexes.[2] The genus had a worldwide distribution from the Late Ordovician to Late Permian.[3]
Distribution
Favosites had a vast distribution, and its fossils can be found on every continent (except Antarctica).[3]
Species
The following species of Favosites have been described:[3]
- F. abnormis
- F. adaverensis
- F. afghanicus
- F. antiquus
- F. bowerbanki
- F. burkhanensis
- F. desolatus
- F. exilis
- F. fallax
- F. favosiformis
- F. favosus
- F. fusiforme
- F. goldfussi (Lecompte, 1939), from the Emsian, Eifelian and Givetian of the Holy Cross Mountains,[4][5] is known to be parasitized by Chaetosalpinx.[5]
- F. gothlandicus
- F. hisingeri
- F. ingens
- F. intricatus
- F. issensis
- F. jaaniensis
- F. kalevi
- F. lichenarioides
- F. mirandus
- F. multicarinatus
- F. oculiporoides
- F. permica
- F. petropolitana
- F. praemaximus
- F. privatus
- F. serratus
- F. sphaericus (Počta, 1902) from the lower Blue Fiord and Disappointment Bay formations of Devonian Canada.[6]
- F. subfavosus
- F. subforbesi
Gallery
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Sagittal cross-section of Favosites, showing communication pores between the corallites.
Upper Ordovician of southern Indiana -
Favosites goldfussi fossil at Natural History Museum, Wiesbaden
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Boardman, R.S. (1987). Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell. p. 714.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Feldman, R.M.; Hackathorn (1996). Fossils of Ohio. Ohio Division of Geological Survey Bulletin 70. p. 577.
- ^ a b c Favosites at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Zapalski, Mikołaj K.; Król, Jan J.; Halamski, Adam T.; Wrzołek, Tomasz; Rakociński, Michał; Baird, Andrew H. (2022-01-01). "Coralliths of tabulate corals from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 585 110745. Bibcode:2022PPP...58510745Z. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110745. ISSN 0031-0182. S2CID 243474351.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Zapalski, M. K. (2009-01-01). "Parasites in Emsian–Eifelian Favosites (Anthozoa, Tabulata) from the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland): changes of distribution within colony". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 314 (1): 125–129. Bibcode:2009GSLSP.314..125Z. doi:10.1144/SP314.6. S2CID 85878146.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Prosh, Eric (1989-01-01). "A Lower Devonian Reef Sequence And Fauna, Disappointment Bay Formation, Canadian Arctic Islands". Digitized Theses.
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