Sachites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of invertebrates}}

{{further|Halkeriid}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Cambrian, {{fossilrange|530|513}}

| taxon = Sachites

| authority = Meshkova, 1969

| type_species = Sachites longus

| type_species_authority = Qian, 1977

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• S. alatus Duan, 1984
• S. desquamatus Duan, 1984
• S. folliformis Duan, 1984
• S. longus Qian, 1977
• S. maidipingensis Qian, 1977
• S. minus Qian et al., 1979
• S. terastios Qian et al., 1979

}}

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.{{cite journal |author1=S. Conway Morris |author2=A. J. Chapman | title=Lower Cambrian Halkieriids and Other Coeloscleritophorans from Aksu-Wushi, Xinjiang, China | journal=Journal of Paleontology | volume=71 | issue=1 | date=January 1997 | pages=6–22 | publisher=Paleontological Society | jstor=1306536 | doi=10.1017/s0022336000038907|bibcode=1997JPal...71....6M }} Although believed to be related to the halkieriids,{{Cite journal| last1 = Jell | first1 = P.| title = Thambetolepis delicata gen. et sp. nov., an enigmatic fossil from the Early Cambrian of South Australia| journal = Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology| volume = 5| issue = 2| pages = 85–89| year = 1981| doi = 10.1080/03115518108565423| bibcode = 1981Alch....5...85J}} a chancelloriid affinity has more recently been proposed.{{Cite journal| last1 = Skovsted | first1 = C. B.| title = Small Shelly Fauna from the Upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland| journal = Journal of Paleontology| volume = 80| issue = 6| pages = 1087–1112| year = 2006| issn = 0022-3360| doi = 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[1087:SSFFTU]2.0.CO;2}}

Sachites has seven species; the type species Sachites longus was named and described in 1977.Qian, 1977