Saukiidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of trilobites}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Cambrian|Ordovician}} | image = Saukiidae - Saukiella pepinensis.JPG | image_caption = ''Saukiella pepinensis'' from Wisconsin | taxon = Saukiidae | authority = Ulrich and Resser 1930 | synonyms = | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text }}

'''''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.<ref name=fa>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fossilworks.org/ |title=The Paleobiology Database |access-date=2024-11-18 |archive-date=2022-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==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

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Category:Saukiidae Category:Trilobite families Category:Cambrian first appearances Category:Cambrian extinctions