Favites gabbi Anderson 1958 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Favites according to F. M. Anderson 1958

Sister taxa: Favites abdita, Favites acuticollis, Favites ambigua, Favites autignacensis, Favites borneensis, Favites carryensis, Favites chinensis, Favites complanata, Favites crassiseptata, Favites densisepta, Favites detecta, Favites flexuosa, Favites halicora, Favites inaequiseptata, Favites macrocalyx, Favites magnificata, Favites magnistellata, Favites mexicana, Favites micropentagona, Favites mimbastensis, Favites neglecta, Favites neugeboreni, Favites neuvillei, Favites oligocenica, Favites pauciseptata, Favites pentagona, Favites polygonalis, Favites rhomboidea, Favites rotundata, Favites spinosa, Favites stylifera, Favites taruensis, Favites tesserifera, Favites valenciennesii, Favites verbeeki, Favites yamanarii

Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS loc29121, Ortigalita Creek, which is in a Maastrichtian marine conglomerate/shale in the Moreno Formation of California.

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 29121, Ortigalita Creek

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