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Favia fragum


Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)

Holotype:
MNHN scleFAV560 (Neotype); Recent, , Haiti.

Species Morphological Description:
Columella width: 1/2; Epitheca: well-developed; Symmetry of bud geometry: multi-directional; Coenosteum: narrow (< valley width); Number of septal cycles: <4; Colony size: small (<10cm); Wall development between buds: always; Calice relief: low (<2mm); Continuity of costae: discontinuous; Septal lobes: absent; Paliform lobes: absent; Columella continuity: continuous; Endothecal dissepiments: rare; Wall structure: septothecal; Double or single wall: single; Attachment of skeleton: attached; Calice or valley width: small (1.5-5mm); Calicular platform shape: u-shaped; Exothecal dissepiments: present; Septal spacing (per 5mm): 6-12; Relative septa thickness: unequal; Relative costae thickness: unequal;


(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Neotype MNHN scle560
Image Type: light
Image view: colony;
Scale: 1.0 cm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 10ABC
Locality: Recent, , Haiti

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Neotype MNHN scle560
Image Type: light
Image view: calice;
Scale: 1.0 cm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 10D
Locality: Recent, , Haiti

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 131966 Carlon #640
Image Type: light
Image view: colony;
Scale: 1.0 cm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 15A
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 131967 Carlon #644
Image Type: light
Image view: calice;
Scale: 1.0 cm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 15B
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 122816 FA1065
Image Type: SEM
Image view: wall;
Scale: 0.5 mm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 20A
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 122816 FA1065
Image Type: SEM
Image view: mid-septum;
Scale: 0.2 mm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 20B
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 122816 FA1065
Image Type: SEM
Image view: columella;
Scale: 0.5 mm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 20C
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 122816 FA1065
Image Type: thin section
Image view: whole corallite;
Scale: 1.0 mm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 24A
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 122816 FA1065
Image Type: thin section
Image view: wall;
Scale: 1.0 mm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 24B
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 122816 FA1065
Image Type: thin section
Image view: columella;
Scale: 1.0 mm
Reference: Budd et al. 2012, Fig 24C
Locality: Recent, Bocas del Toro, Panama

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 84994A
Image Type: thin section
Image view: transverse;
Scale: 1.0 mm
Reference: Budd and Johnson 1998, pl.4, f.1
Locality: Recent, <10m, La Parguera, Puerto Rico

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(C) AFB
Specimen Details:
Favia fragum (Esper, 1797)
Specimen: Figured SUI 84992
Image Type: SEM
Image view: calice;
Scale: 1.0 mm
Reference: Budd and Johnson 1998, pl.5, f.1
Locality: Recent, <10m, La Parguera, Puerto Rico

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Distribution:
No Data No Data
Lower Terrace Formation ?. Salina St. Michiel, St. Michiel, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Early Pliocene - Late Pliocene
Q.Chocolate Formation. Q. Chocolate, Limon, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel ridges, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Tamiami Formation. Sarasota, Florida, north Caribbean.
Late Pliocene
Q.Chocolate Fm (Buenos Aires). Buenos Aires, Limon, Costa Rica, southwest Caribbean.
Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
Seroe Domi Formation. St. Michiel seacliff, Curacao, south Caribbean.
Middle Pleistocene - Late Pleistocene
Key Largo Formation. Key Largo, Florida Keys, Florida, north Caribbean.
San Andres Formation. San Andres, San Andres, central Caribbean.
San.Dom. Terraces. Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, central Caribbean.
Late Pleistocene
Falmouth Formation. Rio Bueno, Jamaica, central Caribbean.
Recent Recent
<10m. Discovery Bay, Jamaica, central Caribbean.