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.
Gogia is distinguished from sea lilies and other blastoids by its body structure, which resembles a vase or a bowling pin with embedded plates, and the division of its ambulacra into pairs of coiled or straight ribbon-like strands.