Saukiella

Saukiella Temporal range: Cambrian–Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
S. pepinensis from Wisconsin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	† Artiopoda
Class:	† Trilobita
Order:	† Asaphida
Family:	† Saukiidae
Genus:	† Saukiella Ulrich & Resser, 1933
Species
S. baikadamica S. diversa

Saukiella is a genus of trilobites of the Saukiidae family.

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)

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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]

References

1. "The Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
2. Sepkoski, Jack