a b s t r a c t 26 In this paper Lie symmetry analysis of the seventh-order time fractional Sawada-Kotera-Ito (FSKI) equa-27 tion with Riemann-Liouville derivative is performed. Using the Lie point symmetries of FSKI equation, it 28 is shown that it can be transformed into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation of fractional order 29 with a new dependent variable. In the reduced equation the derivative is in Erdelyi-Kober sense. 30 Furthermore, adapting the Ibragimov's nonlocal conservation method to time fractional partial differen-31 tial equations, we obtain conservation laws of the underlying equation. In addition, we construct some 32 exact travelling wave solutions for the FSKI equation using the sub-equation method.33