List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia.
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Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
Bouri Formation
Gadeb Plain Group
Omo Group
Fejej Formation
Awash Group
Amba Aradam Formation
Mugher Mudstone
Antalo Limestone
Adigrat Sandstone
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units
Group | Formation | Period | Notes |
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Bouri Formation | Middle Pleistocene | [1] | |
Gadeb Plain Group | Mio Goro Formation | Gelasian-Calabrian | [2] |
Gadeb Formation | Piacenzian-Gelasian | [3] | |
Awash Group | Wehaietu Formation | Pliocene-Holocene | [4] |
Meadura Formation | Quaternary | [5] | |
Matabaietu Formation | Zanclean-Pleistocene | [6] | |
Hadar Formation | Zanclean-Gelasian | [7] | |
Sagantole Formation | Miocene-Pleistocene | [8] | |
Chorora Formation | Serravallian-Tortonian | [9] | |
Adu Asa Formation | Late Miocene | [10] | |
Omo Group | Omo Kibish Formation | Late Pleistocene | [11] |
Kalam Formation | Early Pleistocene | [12] | |
Shungura Formation | Pliocene-Gelasian | [13] | |
Mursi Formation | Zanclean | [14] | |
Usno Formation | Pliocene | [15] | |
Fejej Basalts | Fejej Formation | Zanclean-Pleistocene | [16] |
Amba Aradam Formation | Early Aptian | [17] | |
Mugher Mudstone | Tithonian | [18] | |
Antalo Limestone | Callovian-Kimmeridgian | [19][20] | |
Adigrat Sandstone | Late Triassic-Oxfordian | [21] | |
See also
References
- Bouri Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Mio Goro Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Gadeb Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Wehaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Meadura Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Matabaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Hadar Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Sagantole Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Chorora Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Adu Asa Formation at Fossilworks.org
- "The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- Kalam Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Shungura Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Mursi Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Usno Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Fejej Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Amba Aradam Formation at Fossilworks.org
- Mugher Mudstone at Fossilworks.org
- Antalo Limestone at Fossilworks.org
- Lerouge, F.; Aerts, R. (2019). Fossil evidence of Dogu'a Tembien's environmental past. In: Geo-Trekking in Ethiopia's Tropical Mountains, the Dogu'a Tembien District. SpringerNature. ISBN 978-3-030-04954-6.
- Adigrat Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
- G. Assefa, D. Clark, and M. Williams. 1982. Late Cenozoic history and archaeology of the Upper Webi Shebele Basin, east central Ethiopia. Ethiop. Journal of Science 5(1):27-46
- J. D. Clark, Y. Beyene, G. WoldeGabriel, W. K. Hart, P. R. Renne, H. Gilbert, A. Defleur, G. Suwa, S. Katoh, K. R. Ludwig, J.-R. Boisserie, B. Asfaw, and T. D. White. 2003. Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature 423:747-752
- J. D. Clark, B. Asfaw, G. Assefa, J.W.K. Harris, H. Kurashina, R.C. Walter, T.D. White and M.A.J. Williams. 1984. Paleoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 307:423-428
- D. Clark and H. Kurashina. 1979. Hominid occupation of the east central Highlands of Ethiopia in the Plio-Pleistocene. Nature 282:33-39
- M. B. Goodwin, W. A. Clemens, J. H. Hutchison, C. B. Wood, M. S. Zavada, A. Kemp, C. J. Duffin and C. R. Schaff. 1999. Mesozoic continental vertebrates with associated palynostratigraphic dates from the northwestern Ethiopian plateau. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4):728-741
- C. Guerin. 1985. Les Rhinoceros et les Chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) des gisements de la Vallee de l'Omo en Ethiopie (collections francaise) [The rhinoceroses and chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Omo Valley localities in Ethiopia]. in Coppens, Y. ed., Les faunes Plio-Pleistocenes de la basse Vallee de l'Omo (Ethiopie)Artiodactyles (les Bovidae); expedition internationale 1967-1976, Paris. Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sep. 1985, Cahiers de Paleontologie, Section Vertebres, Paris, France. 1985:67-96
- F. C. Howell, L. S. Fichter, and G. Eck. 1969. Vertebrate assemblages from the Usno Formation, White Sands and Brown Sands localities, lower Omo basin, Ethiopia. Quaternaria 11:65-88
- R. Jordan. 1971. Megafossilien des Jura aus dem Antalo-Kalk von Nord-Äthiopien [Jurassic megafossils from the Antalo Limestone of northern Ethiopia]. Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch 116:141-171
- J. E. Kalb, C. J. Jolly, A. Mebrate, S. Tebedge, C. Smart, E.B. Oswald, D. Cramer, P. Whitehead, C.B. Wood, G.C. Conroy, T. Adefris, L. Sperling, and B. Kana. 1982. Fossil Mammals and Artifacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298:25-29
- W. Kiessling, D. K. Pandey, M. Schemm-Gregory, H. Mewis, and M. Aberhan. 2011. Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities. Journal of African Earth Sciences 59:195-214
- M. G. Leakey and J. M. Harris. 2003. Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa. Lothagam: the dawn of humanity in eastern Africa 678
- M. G. Leakey and C. Feibel. 1996. Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the late Miocene of East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):556-570
- M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172
- G. Suwa, R. T. Kono, S. Katoh, B. Asfaw, and Y. Beyene. 2007. A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia. Nature 448:921-924
- H. B. Wesselman. 1984. The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 17
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