Saukiidae
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| Saukiidae Temporal range: | |
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| Saukiella pepinensis from Wisconsin | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Superfamily: | †Dikelocephaloidea |
| Family: | †Saukiidae Ulrich and Resser 1930 |
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Saukiidae is a family of trilobites of the Asaphida order.
These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, from 494.0 to 478.6 Ma.[1]
