''Saukiidae'' is a family 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

Asaphida Asaphida is a large, morphologically diverse order of trilobites found in marine strata dated from the Middle Cambrian until their extinction during the Silurian. Asaphida contains six superfamilies (Anomocaroidea, Asaphoidea, Cyclopygoidea, ...

order. 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 494.0 to 478.6 Ma.The Paleobiology Database
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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

Dikelokephaloidea Trilobite families Cambrian first appearances Cambrian extinctions {{Asaphida-stub