Saukiidae

Saukiidae is a family of trilobites of the Asaphida order.

Saukiidae
Temporal range: Cambrian–Ordovician
Saukiella pepinensis from Wisconsin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: †Trilobita
Order: †Asaphida
Superfamily: †Dikelokephaloidea
Family: †Saukiidae
Ulrich and Resser 1930
Genera
  • See text

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
  1. The Paleobiology Database


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