Gull River Formation

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| name = Gull River Formation

| image = Gull River formation1.jpg

| caption = Gull River Formation exposed along the shore of Lake St. John, Ramara

| type = Formation

| age = Caradoc
~{{Fossil range|460.9|449}}

| period = Sandbian

| prilithology = Limestone, dolomite

| otherlithology = Shale, sandstone

| namedfor = Gull River

| namedby = V. J. Okulitch

| year_ts = 1939

| region = Ontario
New York
Pennsylvania

| country = Canada
United States

| coordinates =

| unitof = * Simcoe Group

| subunits =

| underlies = * Bobcaygeon Formation

| overlies = Shadow Lake Formation

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The Gull River Formation is a geological formation of Middle Ordovician age (Caradoc Stage), which outcrops in Ontario, Canada.{{cite web|title=Gull River formation|url=http://weblex.nrcan.gc.ca/html/006000/GSCC00053006056.html|publisher=Natural Resources Canada|accessdate=January 4, 2015|date=January 9, 2008}} Lithologically, the formation is dominated by light grey to brown limestones and greenish gray dolomites with thin shale and sandstone interlayers.{{cite book|last1=Armstrong|first1=Derek K.|last2=Dodge|first2=J. E. P.|title=Paleozoic Geology of Southern Ontario|date=2007|publisher=Ontario Geological Survey|isbn=978-1-4249-4526-9|pages=4|url=http://maps.niagararegion.ca/Metadata/md/DocumentUpload/2007-08-08%2014-44-38.pdf}}{{cite book|last1=Armstrong|first1=D. K.|title=Paleozoic Geology of the Northern Lake Simcoe Area, South-Central Ontario|date=2000|publisher=Ontario Geological Survey|isbn=978-0--7778--9451--4|pages=9–15|url=http://www.geologyontario.mndmf.gov.on.ca/mndmfiles/pub/data/imaging/OFR6011/OFR6011.pdf}}

Fossil content

=Invertebrates=

==Chelicerates==

class="wikitable" align="center"
colspan="6" align="center" | Chelicerates reported from the Gull River Formation
GenusSpeciesPresence

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Lunataspis

|L. borealis

| Upper Member, Kingston, Ontario.{{Cite journal |last1=Lamsdell |first1=James C. |last2=Isotalo |first2=Phillip A. |last3=Rudkin |first3=David M. |last4=Martin |first4=Markus J. |date=October 2022 |title=A new species of the Ordovician horseshoe crab Lunataspis |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/new-species-of-the-ordovician-horseshoe-crab-lunataspis/E198745336B0E124E34966425F35FB02 |journal=Geological Magazine |language=en |pages=1–5 |doi=10.1017/S0016756822000875 |s2cid=252723542 |issn=0016-7568|doi-access=free }}

|3 specimens (1 adult & 2 juveniles or subadults).

| A horseshoe crab.

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=Flora=

==Acritarchs==

class="wikitable" align="center"
colspan="6" align="center" | Acritarchs reported from the Gull River Formation
GenusSpeciesPresence

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Dicommopalla

|D. rissae

| Southern Ontario.{{Cite journal |last1=Bunner |first1=Wendy D. |last2=Legault |first2=J. A. |date=1989 |title=A New Species of Dicommopalla (Acritarcha) from the Middle Ordovician Simcoe Group of Southern Ontario, Canada |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3687532 |journal=Palynology |volume=13 |pages=57–62 |doi=10.1080/01916122.1989.9989354 |jstor=3687532 |issn=0191-6122|url-access=subscription }}

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| Also found in the Bobcaygeon Formation.

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