List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia is located in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia
Bouri Formation
Gadeb Plain Group
Enticho Sandstone
Omo Group
Fejej Formation
Awash Group
Amba Aradam Formation
Mugher Mudstone
Antalo Limestone
Adigrat Sandstone
Chilga formation
Konso Formation
Mush Valley

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia.


List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

Group Formation Period Notes
Bouri Formation Middle Pleistocene [1]
Konso Formation Gelasian - Calabrian [2]
Gadeb Plain Group Mio Goro Formation Gelasian-Calabrian [3]
Gadeb Formation Piacenzian-Gelasian [4]
Awash Group Wehaietu Formation Pliocene-Holocene [5]
Meadura Formation Quaternary [6]
Matabaietu Formation Zanclean-Pleistocene [7]
Hadar Formation Zanclean-Gelasian [8]
Sagantole Formation Miocene-Pleistocene [9]
Chorora Formation Serravallian-Tortonian [10]
Adu Asa Formation Late Miocene [11]
Omo Group Omo Kibish Formation Late Pleistocene [12]
Kalam Formation Early Pleistocene [13]
Shungura Formation Pliocene-Gelasian [14]
Mursi Formation Zanclean [15]
Usno Formation Pliocene [16]
Fejej Basalts Fejej Formation Zanclean-Pleistocene [17]
Mush Valley Early Miocene [18][19]
Chilga Formation Chattian [20]
Amba Aradam Formation Early Aptian [21]
Mugher Mudstone Tithonian [22]
Antalo Limestone Callovian-Kimmeridgian [23][24]
Adigrat Sandstone Late Triassic-Oxfordian [25]
Enticho Sandstone Late Ordovician [26]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bouri Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Nagaoka, S., Katoh, S., Woldegabriel, G., Sato, H.P., Nakaya, H., Beyene, Y., & Suwa, G. (2005). Lithostratigraphy and sedimentary environments of the hominid-bearing Pliocene-Pleistocene Konso Formation in the southern Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia. Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 216, 333-357.
  3. ^ Mio Goro Formation at Fossilworks.org
  4. ^ Gadeb Formation at Fossilworks.org
  5. ^ Wehaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org
  6. ^ Meadura Formation at Fossilworks.org
  7. ^ Matabaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org
  8. ^ Hadar Formation at Fossilworks.org
  9. ^ Sagantole Formation at Fossilworks.org
  10. ^ Chorora Formation at Fossilworks.org
  11. ^ Adu Asa Formation at Fossilworks.org
  12. ^ "The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  13. ^ Kalam Formation at Fossilworks.org
  14. ^ Shungura Formation at Fossilworks.org
  15. ^ Mursi Formation at Fossilworks.org
  16. ^ Usno Formation at Fossilworks.org
  17. ^ Fejej Formation at Fossilworks.org
  18. ^ Pan, A. D., Currano, E. D., Jacobs, B. F., Feseha, M., Tabor, N., & Herendeen, P. S. (2012). Fossil Newtonia (Fabaceae: Mimoseae) Seeds from the Early Miocene (22–21 Ma) Mush Valley in Ethiopia. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 173(3), 290–296. https://doi.org/10.1086/663967
  19. ^ Ellen D. Currano, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Rosemary T. Bush, Alice Novello, Mulugeta Feseha, Friðgeir Grímsson, Francesca A. McInerney, Lauren A. Michel, Aaron D. Pan, Samuel R. Phelps, Pratigya Polissar, Caroline A.E. Strömberg, Neil J. Tabor, Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia,Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 539,2020,109425,ISSN 0031-0182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109425.
  20. ^ Chilga at Fossilworks.org
  21. ^ Amba Aradam Formation at Fossilworks.org
  22. ^ Mugher Mudstone at Fossilworks.org
  23. ^ Antalo Limestone at Fossilworks.org
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ Adigrat Sandstone at Fossilworks.org
  26. ^ Lewin, A., Meinhold, G., Hinderer, M., Dawit, E. L., & Bussert, R. (2018). Provenance of sandstones in Ethiopia during Late Ordovician and Carboniferous–Permian Gondwana glaciations: Petrography and geochemistry of the Enticho Sandstone and the Edaga Arbi Glacials. Sedimentary Geology, 375, 188–202. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SEDGEO.2017.10.006

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