Thambetolepis
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| Thambetolepis Temporal range: Cambrian, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Order: | †Chancelloriida |
| Family: | †Sachitidae |
| Genus: | †Thambetolepis Jell, 1981 |
| Species: | †T. d. (?) |
| Binomial name | |
| †Thambetolepis delicata (?) Jell, 1981 | |
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Thambetolepis is a dubious genus of sachitid halkieriid from the Cambrian (530-513 Ma). The genus Sinosachites may have been the same as Thambetolepis.
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.
