Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Albertine Group

Semliki Group

Sinda Beds

Landana Formation

Lualaba Group

Kwango Group

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
Albertine Group	Nyabusosi Formation	Gelasian	^[1]
Albertine Group	Nyakabingo Formation	Piacenzian	^[2]
Semliki Group	Lusso Beds	Pliocene	^[3]
	Sinda Beds	Late Miocene-Pliocene	^[4]
	Landana Formation	Thanetian-Ypresian	^[5]
Lualaba Group		Cenomanian	^[6]
Kwango Group		Late Jurassic	^[7]
Upper Lukuga Group	Transition Formation	Kungurian	^[8]
Upper Lukuga Group	Couches de houille Formation	Sakmarian-Artinskian	^[9]
Lower Lukuga Group	Schistes noires Formation	Asselian-Sakmarian	^[10]
Lower Lukuga Group	Schistes noirs de Walikale Formation	Asselian	^[11]
Ecca Group		Asselian	^[12]

References

R. Aoki. 1992. Fossil crocodilians from the late Tertiary strata in the Sinda Basin, eastern Zaire. African Study Monographs 17:67-85
O. A. Hoeg and M.N. Bose. 1960. The Glossopteris flora of the Belgian Congo, with a note on some fossil plants from the Zambesi [sic] Basin (Mozambique). Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge 32:1-99
A. K. Miller. 1951. Tertiary nautiloids of west-coastal Africa. Annales du Museé du Congo Belge Tervuren, Sciences Géologiques 8:1-88
P. P. Pavlakis. 1990. Plio-Pleistocene Hippopotamidae from the Upper Semliki. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 1:203-223
P. Pruvost. 1934. Description d'un insecte fossile des couches de la Lukuga (Kivu). Memoires de l'Institut geologique de l'Universite de Louvain 9(4):1-8
W. E. Swinton. 1948. A Cretaceous pterosaur from the Belgian Congo. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie, de Paléontologie, et d'Hydrologie 57:234-238

v t e Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Territories and dependencies	Îles Éparses / Mayotte / Réunion France Pantelleria / Pelagie Islands Italy Madeira Portugal Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía Spain Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha UK Socotra Yemen Western Sahara¹
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
¹ Unclear sovereignty

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