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Favites
Taxonomy
Favites was named by Link (1807) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo R]. It is extant.
It was assigned to Scleractinia by Sepkoski (2002); to Faviidae by Veron (2000) and López-Pérez (2005); and to Merulinidae by Huang et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Scleractinia by Sepkoski (2002); to Faviidae by Veron (2000) and López-Pérez (2005); and to Merulinidae by Huang et al. (2014).
Species
F. abdita (syn. Prionastraea gibbosa, Prionastraea sulfurea, Favia crassior, Prionastraea quoyi, F. virens), F. acuticollis, F. ambigua, F. autignacensis, F. borneensis, F. carryensis, F. chinensis, F. complanata, F. crassiseptata, F. densisepta, F. detecta, F. flexuosa, F. gabbi, F. halicora, F. inaequiseptata, F. macrocalyx, F. magnificata, F. magnistellata, F. mexicana, F. micropentagona, F. mimbastensis, F. neglecta, F. neugeboreni, F. neuvillei, F. oligocenica, F. pauciseptata, F. pentagona, F. polygonalis, F. rhomboidea, F. rotundata, F. spinosa, F. stylifera, F. taruensis, F. tesserifera, F. valenciennesii, F. verbeeki, F. yamanarii
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1807 | Favites Link |
| 1848 | Aphrastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime |
| 1857 | Metastraea Milne-Edwards and Haime |
| 1857 | Metastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime |
| 1871 | Ellasmoastraea Michelotti |
| 1871 | Plesiophyllia Michelotti |
| 1961 | Ellasmoastraea Chevalier p. 150 |
| 2000 | Favites Veron p. 134 |
| 2002 | Favites Sepkoski |
| 2002 | Plesiophyllia Sepkoski |
| 2005 | Favites López-Pérez p. 83 |
| 2014 | Favites Huang et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Favites Link 1807
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Favites abdita Ellis and Solander 1786
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Invalid names: Favia crassior Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 [synonym], Favites virens Dana 1846 [synonym], Prionastraea gibbosa Klunzinger 1879 [synonym], Prionastraea quoyi Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 [synonym], Prionastraea sulfurea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 [synonym]
Favites acuticollis Ortmann 1889
†Favites ambigua Zuffardi-Comerci 1934
†Favites autignacensis Chevalier 1961
†Favites borneensis Gerth 1923
†Favites carryensis Chevalier 1961
Favites chinensis Verrill 1866
Favites complanata Ehrenberg 1834
†Favites crassiseptata Stemann 1992
†Favites densisepta Chevalier 1961
†Favites detecta Michelotti 1871
†Favites flexuosa Dana 1846
†Favites gabbi Anderson 1958
Favites halicora Ehrenberg 1834
†Favites inaequiseptata Gerth 1921
†Favites macrocalyx Schuster 2002
†Favites magnificata Stemann 1992
Favites magnistellata Chevalier 1971
†Favites mexicana Vaughan 1919
Favites micropentagona Veron 2000
†Favites mimbastensis Chevalier 1961
†Favites neglecta Michelotti 1868
†Favites neugeboreni Reuss 1871
†Favites neuvillei Chevalier 1961
†Favites oligocenica Chevalier 1955
†Favites pauciseptata Gerth 1923
†Favites pentagona Esper 1794
†Favites polygonalis Duncan 1863
†Favites rhomboidea Kühn 1933
Favites rotundata Veron and Pichon 1977
Favites spinosa Klunzinger 1879
Favites stylifera Yabe and Sugiyama 1937
†Favites taruensis Eguchi 1951
Favites tesserifera Ehrenberg 1834
†Favites valenciennesii Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
†Favites verbeeki Dollfus 1908
Favites yamanarii Yabe and Sugiyama 1935
Invalid names: Aphrastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 [synonym], Ellasmoastraea Michelotti 1871 [synonym], Metastraea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857 [synonym], Metastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857 [synonym], Plesiophyllia Michelotti 1871 [synonym], Prionastraea [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2008, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Tithonian to the top of the Holocene or 150.80000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 145.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 145.0 Ma
Collections (371 total)
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| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Oxfordian - Tithonian | Japan (Tokyo) | F. taruensis (91401) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | Lebanon | Metastraea delmontana (34869) | |
| Maastrichtian | USA (California) | F. gabbi (215321) | |
| Ypresian | Italy | F. taramellii (227821) | |
| Priabonian | Italy | F. sp. (224871 224872 224873) | |
| Priabonian | Panama | F. magnificata, F. crassiseptata (7274) | |
| Priabonian | Pakistan | F. tenuiseptata (11291) | |
| Priabonian | Indonesia (Sulawesi) | F. sp. (26857) | |
| Rupelian | Greece | F. ambigua, F. macrocalyx (79603) | |
| Rupelian | Iran | F. sp. (111335) | |
| Oligocene | Somalia | F. sp. (123834) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Mexico (Tamaulipas) | F. mexicana (124678) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Jamaica | F. polygonalis, F. mexicana (69725) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Puerto Rico | F. sp. (45402 45403 45404) | |
| Chattian | Italy | F. sp. (25370 25372 211273 211274 211275 211276 211277) | |
| Chattian | Antigua and Barbuda | F. polygonalis (203876 203879) | |
| Chattian | Turkey | F. sp. (111674 111678) | |
| Chattian | France | F. detecta (22968) F. neglecta (70067) F. virens, Ellasmoastraea multilateralis, Ellasmoastraea intersedia, Ellasmoastraea parvistella, F. neglecta (163836) | |
| Chattian | Mexico (Chiapas) | F. polygonalis (31271) | |
| Chattian | Turkey (Denizli) | F. sp. (88771 88772) | |