Thambetolepis is a dubious genus of sachitid halkieriid from the Cambrian (530-513 Ma). The genus Sinosachites may have been the same as Thambetolepis.
| Thambetolepis Temporal range: Cambrian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Order: | †Chancelloriida |
| Family: | †Sachitidae |
| Genus: | †Thambetolepis Jell, 1981 |
| Species: | †T. d. (?)
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| †Thambetolepis delicata (?) Jell, 1981
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The sclerites of Sinosachites are probably synonymous with Thambetolepis, which was originally described from Australia. Left-hand and right-hand sclerites exist, so the animal was bilaterally symmetrical; as in Halkieria, palmate, cultrate and siculate sclerite morphologies exist.[1] The chambers are the same diameter, ~40 μm, as the longitudinal canals in Australohalkieria; their greater number and arrangement as lateral rather than longitudinal bodies reflects the greater size of the Sinosachites sclerites, which measure about 1–2 mm in length.
References
edit- ^ Vinther, J. (2009). "The Canal System in Sclerites of Lower Cambrian Sinosachites (Halkieriidae: Sachitida): Significance for the Molluscan Affinities of the Sachitids". Palaeontology. 52 (4): 689–712. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00881.x. S2CID 84163005.
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