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Favosites
Fossil genus of corals recognised on the densely packed, polygon cells. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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
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Gallery
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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