Saukiidae
| Saukiidae Temporal range:
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|---|---|
| Saukiella pepinensis from Wisconsin | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Superfamily: | †Dikelocephaloidea |
| Family: | † Ulrich and Resser 1930 |
| Genera | |
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Saukiidae is a family of trilobites of the Asaphida order.
These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, from 494.0 to 478.6 Ma.[1]
Genera
- Anderssonella Kobayashi 1936
- Calvinella Walcott 1914
- Diemanosaukia Jago and Corbett 1990
- Linguisaukia Peng 1984
- Lophosaukia Shergold 1971
- Mictosaukia Shergold 1975
- Prosaukia Ulrich and Resser 1933
- Pseudocalvinella Qiu 1984
- Saukia Walcott 1914
- Saukiella Ulrich and Resser 1933
- Stigmaspis Nelson 1951
- Tellerina Ulrich and Resser 1933
References