Gogia

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Artists reconstruction of G. ojenai
fossil eocrinoid Gogia spiralis
Gogia spiralis

Gogia is a genus of primitive eocrinoid blastozoan from the early to middle Cambrian.

G. ojenai dates to the late Early Cambrian;[1] other species come from various Middle Cambrian strata throughout North America, but the genus has yet to be described outside this continent.[2] Notable localities where species are found include the Wheeler Shale of Utah,[3] and the Burgess Shale of British Columbia.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The species of Gogia, like other eocrinoids, were not closely related to the true crinoids, instead, being more closely related to the blastoids.

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Gogia radiata

Gogia is distinguished from sea lilies, and most other blastoids, in that the plate-covered body was shaped like a vase, or a bowling pin (with the pin part stuck into the substrate), and that the five ambulacra were split into pairs of coiled or straight, ribbon-like strands. Six specimens of Gogia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.[4]

As a whole, the Eocrinoids are regarded as basal blastozoans very close to the ancestry of the entire subphylum.

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