Choice Gogia spiralis Dawn Crinoid Fossil

Gogia spiralis Dawn Crinoid

Echinodermata

Geological Time: Middle Cambrian

Size (25.4 mm = 1 inch): Matrix 60mm X 80mm Gogia 32mm

Fossil Site: Wheeler Shale, Millard County, Utah

Fossil Code: EC036

Price: $25.00 - 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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