Urban fossils of Ottawa
Victoria Island
Location: natural outcrop
Rock: limestone
Age: Ordovician
Fossils: ichnofossils, gastropods and algae
Information and photographs: Quentin Gall. Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
More information: A Walking Guide - Ottawa’s Building and Monument Stones
Victoria Island
Location: natural outcrop
Rock: limestone
Age: Ordovician
Fossils: ichnofossils, gastropods and algae
Information and photographs: Quentin Gall. Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
More information: A Walking Guide - Ottawa’s Building and Monument Stones
Middle Ordovician fossiliferous limestone (Lindsay Fm.) with bryozoa, crinoids and strophic brachiopod fragments
Crinoid ossicles (circular sections) in biomicrite limestone
Horizontal burrows in micritic limestone