Eocrinoidea

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Eocrinoidea
Fossil range: Cambrian - Silurian
Gogia ojenai
Gogia ojenai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Blastozoa
Class: Eocrinoidea
Jaekel, 1899

The Eocrinoidea ("dawn crinoids") are a paraphyletic division of echinoderms, in that the Blastoids are derived/descended from them. As with all sea lily-like echinoderms, they were sessile animals containing brachioles with a holdfast, and many later developed stalks with their descendants, the Blastoids. The body and in some, the holdfast was covered by plates [1].

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  1. ^ The Eocrinoidea

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