Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Parent taxon: Favositinae according to E. Klaamann 1964
See also Murray 1985 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Astrocerium, Beiliupora, Crenulipora, Dictyofavosites, Hattonia, Issolites, Klaamannipora, Lamellaeoporella, Ozopora, Rudakites, Salairia, Sapporipora, Squameopora, Striatoporella
Subtaxa: Favosites (Osculius) Favosites abnormis Favosites adaverensis Favosites afghanicus Favosites antiquus Favosites argus Favosites basalticus Favosites bowerbanki Favosites burkhanensis 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: Favosites gothlandicus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Georgia, Kentucky)
• Givetian of Morocco (3)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (4), Australia (46), Austria (7), Belgium (9), Canada (54: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (14), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (34), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Laos (1), Mongolia (9), Morocco (10), New Zealand (6), the Russian Federation (39), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (16), Tajikistan (23), Thailand (3), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (207: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee), Uzbekistan (4), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (17)
• Jaani of Estonia (10)
• Niagaran of United States (3: Indiana, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Pacific (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (2: Oklahoma, Virginia)
• Silurian of Afghanistan (2), Argentina (1), Australia (16), Belarus (2), Canada (119: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (59), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (41), Greenland (7), India (5), Kazakhstan (4), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (9), Norway (11), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (101), Sweden (24), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (11), the United Kingdom (19), United States (165: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (8: British Columbia, Northwest Territories), United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (12: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (20: Georgia, Wyoming)
Total: 1214 collections including 1803 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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