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Saukiella

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Saukiella
Temporal range: Cambrian–Ordovician
Fossils of Saukiella pepinensis from Wisconsin, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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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)

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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]

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