NMITA:Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Favia fragum (Esper, 1795)

Holotype: lost

Morphologic Description:

Colony size: small (<10cm)

Attachment of skeleton: attached

Epitheca: well-developed

Wall development between buds: always

Symmetry of bud geometry: multi-directional

Calice or valley width: small (<5mm)

Calice relief: low (<2mm)

Calicular platform shape: u-shaped

Coenosteum: narrow (< valley width)

Exothecal dissepiments: present

Number of septal cycles: <4

Septal spacing (per 5mm): 6-12

Relative septa thickness: unequal

Relative costae thickness: unequal

Continuity of costae: dis-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:

Early Pliocene to Late Pliocene : Tamiami Fm., Sarasota, Florida; Q.Chocolate Fm., Q. Chocolate, Costa Rica; Seroe Domi Fm., St. Michiel ridges, Curacao;

Late Pliocene : Q.Chocolate Fm., Buenos Aires, Costa Rica; Q.Chocolate Fm., Buenos Aires, Costa Rica; Q.Chocolate Fm., Buenos Aires, Costa Rica; Q.Chocolate Fm., Buenos Aires, Costa Rica;

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

Late Pleistocene : Falmouth Fm., Rio Bueno, Jamaica; Falmouth Fm., Rio Bueno, Jamaica;

Recent : <10m, Discovery Bay, Jamaica;