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Saukiella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Trilobita

Family
  
Saukiidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Asaphida

Rank
  
Genus

Saukiella

Similar
  
Dikelocephalus, Saukiidae, Conodont

Saukiella is a genus of trilobites of the Saukiidae family.

Contents

These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, from 498.5 to 478.6 Ma.

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.

    References

    Saukiella Wikipedia
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