Semicassis centiquadrata
Semicassis centiquadrata is a species of sea snail in the family Cassidae.

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SemicassisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Semicassis centiquadrata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
14 occurrences- Miocene21%
- Pliocene21%
- Pleistocene57%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group5
- Esmeraldas Formation1
- Tuira Formation · Lara Group1
- Charco Azul Formation1
- Onzole Formation1
- Montezuma Formation1
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The named rock units Semicassis centiquadrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Semicassis centiquadrata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Semicassis centiquadrata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Borsonella2 sites
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria) penita2 sites
- Fusiturricula2 sites
- Lucinoma chiripanica2 sites
- Metula2 sites
- Saccella chiriquiana2 sites
- Scalina ferminiana2 sites
- Acesta1 site
- Admete (Marksella) jumala1 site
- Anachis (Alia)1 site
- Anachis (Anachis)1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) charcoazulensis1 site
- Anadara (Sectiarca) henekeni1 site
- Ancistrosyrinx cedonulli reevei1 site
- Ancistrosyrinx cedonulli reevi1 site
- Anomia peruviana1 site
- Antillophos1 site
- Arca (Arca) suspecta1 site
- Arcinella arcinella cf. arcinella1 site
- Boreotrophon1 site
- Buridrillia1 site
- Buridrillia panarica1 site
- Bursa rugosa1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Semicassis centiquadrata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus13
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
Each of the 14 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Semicassis centiquadrata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Semicassis centiquadrata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSemicassis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Valenciennes 1832)