Sachites Temporal range: Cambrian,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Order: | †Chancelloriida |
Family: | †Sachitidae |
Genus: | †Sachites Meshkova, 1969 |
Type species | |
Sachites longus Qian, 1977
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Sachites (Meshkova 1969) is an extinct genus of halkeriid that is only known from fossilised spiny sclerites; many Sachites specimens are now referred to as other halkieriid taxa.[1] Although believed to be related to the halkieriids,[2] a chancelloriid affinity has more recently been proposed.[3]
Sachites has seven species; the type species Sachites longus was named and described in 1977.[4]