Saukiella
Saukiella Temporal range:
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S. pepinensis from Wisconsin | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | †Trilobita |
Order: | †Asaphida |
Family: | †Saukiidae |
Genus: | †Saukiella Ulrich & Resser, 1933 |
Species | |
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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[]
- 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[]
Categories:
- Saukiidae
- Asaphida genera
- Cambrian first appearances
- Ordovician extinctions
- Trilobites of Europe
- Trilobites of North America
- Paleozoic life of Alberta
- Asaphida stubs