Wilson 1946a Loc 037. Table rock, Chaudiere Falls (Ordovician of Canada)

Where: Quebec, Canada (45.4° N, 75.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 15.3° S, 104.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Phragmodus undatus graptolite zone, Hull Formation, Turinian (457.3 - 453.8 Ma)

• Hull is sometimes considered an extension of the upper Bobcaygeon. However, recent consensus is to make the Hull its own formation. The Hull overlies the Rockland and underlies the Verulam. Dix & Al-Dulami 2011 have it in the Diplograptus multidens graptolite zone, but that seems one zone low.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• Barrier-front deposits consist of predominantly crinoid-bryozoan grainstone with a suite of sedimentary structures indicative of a lower to middle shoreface setting (planar laminae, cross-laminae, rare HCS and a mixed Skolithos-Cruziana ichnofauna). The barrier-top facies consist of closely juxtaposed very high- and low-energy deposits, representing barred upper shoreface to beach environments and slackpond or intertidal mudflat. The high-energy facies consist of bryozoan-pelecypod-Solenopora-oncoid grainstone and rudstone. Sedimentary structures include low-angle, truncating planar laminae and locally dense clusters of small Skolithos burrows. Low-energy deposits are sparsely fossiliferous (ostracodes, green algae, gastropods and Tetradium) calcisiltite with probable fenestrae and very rare desiccation cracks. Small (<50 cm deep), storm-breach channels filled by bioclastic-intraclastic rudstone are incised into the calcisiltite. Most of the lagoon deposits are Tetradium and green algae-rich mudstones. Pelloidal grainstone are interpreted as representing small sand shoals/beaches around the fringes of the lagoon. Lenses of bioclastic-intraclastic rudstone, with grain-types characteristic of both the barrier-top and lagoon, are interpreted as storm washover deposits. (Kiernan & Dix 2002. The Hull Limestone (Upper Ordovician) of Eastern Ontario: A Lower Paleozoic Carbonate Barrier-and-Lagoon System)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: A. E. Wilson. 1946. Echinodermata of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence lowland. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 4:1-61 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195625: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

 Rhombifera - Pleurocystitidae
"Pleurocystites squamosus" = Pleurocystites squamosus, "Pleurocystites cf. robustus" = Pleurocystites squamosus, "Pleurocystites elegans" = Pleurocystites filitextus
"Pleurocystites squamosus" = Pleurocystites squamosus Billings 1874
"Pleurocystites cf. robustus" = Pleurocystites squamosus Billings 1874
"Pleurocystites elegans" = Pleurocystites filitextus Billings 1854
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Glyptocrinidae
 Diplobathrida - Cleiocrinidae
Cleiocrinus regius Billings 1857 Sea lily
 Camerata - Reteocrinidae
Reteocrinus stellaris Billings 1859 Sea lily
 Porocrinida -
Porocrinus conicus Billings 1857 Sea lily
Carabocrinus radiatus Billings 1857 Sea lily
 Hybocrinida - Hybocrinidae
Hybocrinus tumidus Billings 1857 Sea lily
 Homocrinida - Homocrinidae
"Ectenocrinus canadensis" = Ectenocrinus simplex
"Ectenocrinus canadensis" = Ectenocrinus simplex Hall 1847 Sea lily
 Homocrinida - Cincinnaticrinidae
"Heterocrinus tenuis" = Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialus
"Heterocrinus tenuis" = Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialus Warn and Strimple 1977 Sea lily
Paracrinoidea
 Comarocystitida - Comarocystitidae
 Comarocystitida - Amygdalocystitidae
Asteroidea
 Hadrosida - Hudsonasteridae
Hudsonaster narrawayi Hudson 1912 sea star
 Hadrosida - Promopalaeasteridae
Promopalaeaster sp. Schuchert 1914 sea star
 Hadrosida - Urasterellidae
Urasterella pulchella Billings 1857 sea star
Edrioasteroidea
  - Hemicystitidae