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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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Favosites | |
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Favosites sp. from the Upper Ordovician of southern Indiana | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | †Tabulata |
Family: | †Favositidae |
Genus: | †Favosites Lamarck 1816 |
Type species | |
F. gothlandicus | |
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