Favia n.sp. A.


Photograph: Scale bar = 2 mm (NMB D6017, Late Miocene, Cercado Formation, Dominican Republic).

Morphologic Description:

Colony Form: plocoid
Colony Shape: massive
Colony Size: small
Attachment of Skeleton: attached
Budding Type: intramural
Corallite Diameter: 2.5-3.5 mm (minimum)
Calical Relief: moderate
Centers Per Corallite: 1-2
Coenosteum Width: thin, 0.5-1.5 mm
Septa Per Corallite: approx. 48
Relative Septum Thickness: unequal
Relative Costae Thickness: equal
Continuity of Costae: continuous
Columella Structure: trabecular and continuous
Columella Development: moderate
Wall Structure: septothecal

Distribution:

Late Miocene: Cercado Formation, Dominican Republic.
Late Pliocene: Moin Formation, Dominican Republic.
Late Late Pliocene: Unda core (BDP), Bahamas.