Choice Gogia spiralis Dawn Crinoid Fossil

Name: Gogia spiralis; Echinodermata: (also called Dawn Crinoid)

Age: Middle Cambrian

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): 100mm X 120mm Gogia 38mm

Location: Wheeler Shale, Millard County, Utah

Code: EC035

Price: $35.00 - sold


Gogia is Cambrian cystoid that is among the earliest and most primitive groups of echinoderms. For this reason they are sometimes called a "dawn crinoids". They had a vase-shaped body (calyx), covered by plates that were symmetrical and have a bifurcated brachiole, a slender arm-like structure for food-gathering that closely resembled those in cystoids.

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