''Saukiella'' is a genus of

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. Trilobites form one of the earliest-known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the At ...

s of the

Saukiidae ''Saukiidae'' is a family of trilobites of the Asaphida order. These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six p ...

family. These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the

Cambrian The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...

and

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start ...

periods, from 498.5 to 478.6 Ma.The Paleobiology Database
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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

sediments of Russia and in the Cambrian sediments of Canada, China, Kazakhstan and United States.

References

Saukiidae Asaphida genera Cambrian first appearances Ordovician extinctions Trilobites of Europe Trilobites of North America Paleozoic life of Alberta {{Asaphida-stub