Saukiella
Extinct genus of trilobites
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Saukiella is a genus of trilobites of the Saukiidae family.
| Saukiella Temporal range: | |
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| S. pepinensis from Wisconsin | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Saukiidae |
| Genus: | †Saukiella Ulrich & Resser, 1933 |
| Species | |
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These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, from 498.5 to 478.6 Ma.[1][2]
Species
- Saukiella baikadamica Ergaliev 1980
- Saukiella diversa Qiu 1984
- Saukiella pepinensis (Owen, 1852) (syn. Dikelocephalus pepinensis)
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Ordovician sediments of Russia and in the Cambrian sediments of Canada, China, Kazakhstan and United States.[1]
