Favosites burkhanensis Sharkova 1981 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae

Full reference: T. T. Sharkova. 1981. Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 14:5-104

Belongs to Favosites according to T. T. Sharkova 1981

Sister taxa: Favosites (Osculius), Favosites abnormis, Favosites adaverensis, Favosites afghanicus, Favosites antiquus, Favosites argus, Favosites basalticus, Favosites bowerbanki, Favosites canadensis, Favosites cervicornis, Favosites clausus, Favosites convexus, Favosites desolatus, Favosites exilis, Favosites fallax, Favosites favosiformis, Favosites favosus, Favosites goldfussi, Favosites gothlandicus, Favosites hemispherica, Favosites hisingeri, Favosites ingens, Favosites intricatus, Favosites issensis, Favosites jaaniensis, Favosites kalevi, Favosites lichenarioides, Favosites limitaris, Favosites mirandus, Favosites multicarinatus, Favosites nitella, Favosites oculiporoides, Favosites permica, Favosites petropolitana, Favosites placentopsis, Favosites polymorpha, Favosites praemaximus, Favosites privatus, Favosites radiciformis, Favosites serratus, Favosites subfavosus, Favosites subforbesi, Favosites turbinata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mandal-Obo, Mushgai area, which is in a Wenlock shallow subtidal limestone/sandstone in Mongolia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Mandal-Obo, Mushgai area

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