title: Saukiella
text: # Saukiella
  
  Saukiella is a genus of trilobites of the Saukiidae family.
  
  These fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeders lived in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, from 498.5 to 478.6 Ma.
  
  ## 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 Ordovician sediments of Russia and in the Cambrian sediments of Canada, China, Kazakhstan and United States.
  
  