NMITA:Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Favia vokesae Budd and Johnson, 1998

Holotype: NMB D6017

Morphologic Description:

Colony size: small (<10cm)

Attachment of skeleton: attached

Epitheca: reduced

Wall development between buds: always

Symmetry of bud geometry: multi-directional

Calice or valley width: small (<5mm)

Calice relief: medium (2-4mm)

Calicular platform shape: u-shaped

Coenosteum: fused walls

Exothecal dissepiments: present

Number of septal cycles: >4

Septal spacing (per 5mm): >12

Relative septa thickness: unequal

Relative costae thickness: equal

Continuity of costae: continuous

Septal lobes: absent

Paliform lobes: absent

Columella continuity: continuous

Columella width: 1/2

Endothecal dissepiments: rare

Wall structure: septothecal

Double or single wall: single

Distribution:

Late Miocene : Cercado Fm., Rio Cana, Dominican Republic;

Early Pliocene to Late Pliocene : Seroe Domi Fm., St. Michiel ridges, Curacao;

Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene : 259-272fbmp, BDP Core Unda, Bahamas;