Saukiella
| Saukiella Temporal range: Cambrian–Ordovician | |
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| Fossils of Saukiella pepinensis from Wisconsin, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Trilobita |
| Order: | Asaphida |
| Family: | Saukiidae |
| Genus: | Saukiella Ulrich and Resser, 1933 |
Saukiella is a genus of trilobite 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)
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
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