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{{Short description|Trace fossil}}
{{Ichnobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Ediacaran|Tertiary}}
| taxon = Gordia
| authority = Emmons, 1844
}}
'''''Gordia''''' is an [[ichnofossil]] known from Precambrian<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gordia |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=83892 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> to modern sediments and is the most common trace fossil in the [[Kaili biota]] displaying "smooth, cylindrical or subcylindrical, non-branching, winding and irregularly curving burrows, commonly self-overcrossing".<ref name=Wang2009>{{Cite journal| first1 = Y.| first2 = J. P.| first3 = Y. L.| first4 = P. J.| title = Palaeoecology of the trace fossil Gordia and its interaction with nonmineralizing taxa from the early Middle Cambrian Kaili Biota, Guizhou Province, South China| last1 = Wang| journal =  	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology| volume = 277| issue = 1–2| pages = 141–148| year = 2009| doi = 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.017| last2 =   Lin| last3 =   Zhao| last4 =   Orr    | bibcode = 2009PPP...277..141W}}</ref> Probably made by a worm-like creature displaying fodinichnial (sediment scavenging) behaviour.<ref name=Wang2009/>  It takes the form of unlined, curving parallel-walled burrows that often end with a nub, probably created as the creature probed the over- or under-lying sediment.<ref name="Wang2009" /> It resembles ''[[Helminthopsis]]'' and ''[[Haplotichnus]]''.<ref name="Wang2009" />
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[[Category:Burrow fossils]]
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