Favosites

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Favosites
Temporal range: Late Ordovician-Late Permian
456.1–265 Ma
Favosites sp. from the Upper Ordovician of southern Indiana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: †Tabulata
Family: †Favositidae
Genus: †Favosites
Lamarck 1816
Type species
F. gothlandicus
Species

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More polished Favosites fossil.

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

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Favosites had a vast distribution, and its fossils can be found on every continent (except Antarctica).[3]

Species

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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
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  • Sagittal cross-section of Favosites, showing communication pores between the corallites. Upper Ordovician of southern Indiana
    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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