Sachites

Sachites 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. Although believed to be related to the halkieriids, a chancelloriid affinity has more recently been proposed.

No picture of Sachites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sachites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SachitidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Sachitida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Sachitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Sachitida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 509.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 30 of 30 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 2 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 2 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 2 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 2 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 3 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 3 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 3 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 3 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 3 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525.5 Mya515.3 Mya539.4 Mya509.1 Mya

30 occurrences of Sachites on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

30 occurrences

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

11 formations

Zhujiaqing — 24.67°N, 102.65°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EPestrotsvet — 57.35°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.00°EDengying — 26.63°N, 105.85°EDengying — 32.35°N, 106.82°EHuangshandong — 30.83°N, 111.17°EHuangshandong — 30.77°N, 111.13°EMaidiping — 29.53°N, 103.39°EBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WTodd River Dolomite — 23.52°S, 134.47°ETyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°EKuanchuanpu — 32.97°N, 106.25°EJiulaodong — 29.53°N, 103.39°EManykay — 70.67°N, 103.00°E

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The named rock units Sachites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sachites and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Sachites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Sachites, 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

12 references

Each of the 30 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Sachites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sachites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sachites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSachitidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meshkova 1969