Saukiella

Saukiella Temporal range: Cambrian–Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
S. pepinensis from Wisconsin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
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]

• Saukiella baikadamica Ergaliev 1980
• Saukiella diversa Qiu 1984
• Saukiella pepinensis (Owen, 1852) (syn. Dikelocephalus pepinensis)

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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]

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