Saukiella
| Saukiella Temporal range:
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| S. pepinensis from Wisconsin | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Saukiidae |
| Genus: | †Saukiella Ulrich & Resser, 1933 |
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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
[edit]- Saukiella baikadamica Ergaliev 1980
- Saukiella diversa Qiu 1984
- Saukiella pepinensis (Owen, 1852) (syn. Dikelocephalus pepinensis)
Distribution
[edit]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
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