Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae

Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. . Smithsonian Institution Bulletin, 103:189-524

Belongs to Favites according to T. W. Vaughan 1919

Sister taxa: Favites abdita, Favites acuticollis, Favites ambigua, Favites autignacensis, Favites borneensis, Favites chinensis, Favites complanata, Favites crassiseptata, Favites densisepta, Favites detecta, Favites flexuosa, Favites halicora, Favites inaequiseptata, Favites macrocalyx, Favites magnificata, Favites micropentagona, Favites mimbastensis, Favites neglecta, Favites neugeboreni, Favites neuvillei, Favites oligocenica, Favites pauciseptata, Favites pentagona, Favites polygonalis, Favites rhomboidea, Favites spinosa, Favites stylifera, Favites taruensis, Favites yborensis, Prionastraea verbeeki, Prionastraea tesserifera, Ellasmoastraea carryensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is San Rafael, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in the San Rafael Formation of Mexico

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-microcarnivore