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Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units by preserved taxon

Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units by preserved taxon

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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

Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of Asia

Sovereign states

States with limited recognition

Abkhazia
Nagorno-Karabakh
Northern Cyprus
South Ossetia
Taiwan

Dependencies and special
administrative regions

Australia	Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands
China	Hong Kong Macau
United Kingdom	Akrotiri and Dhekelia British Indian Ocean Territory

v t e Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of Europe
Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia¹ Austria Azerbaijan¹ Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus¹ Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia¹ Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan¹ Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia¹ San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey¹ Ukraine United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Vatican City
States with limited recognition	Abkhazia¹ Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh¹ Northern Cyprus¹ South Ossetia¹ Transnistria
Dependencies and other territories	Faroe Islands Denmark Åland Islands Finland Svalbard Norway Akrotiri and Dhekelia¹ / Gibraltar / Guernsey / Isle of Man / Jersey United Kingdom
¹ Can also be considered as being in Asia.

Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of North America

Sovereign
states

Entire	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama St. Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
In part	Colombia San Andrés and Providencia France Guadeloupe Martinique Netherlands Bonaire Saba Sint Eustatius Venezuela Nueva Esparta

Denmark	Greenland
France	Clipperton Island St. Barthélemy St. Martin St. Pierre and Miquelon
Netherlands	Aruba Curaçao Sint Maarten
United Kingdom	Anguilla Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Montserrat Turks and Caicos Islands
United States	Navassa Island Puerto Rico United States Virgin Islands

Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of Oceania

Sovereign states

Entire	Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga East Timor (Timor-Leste)¹ Tuvalu Vanuatu
In part	Chile Easter Island Juan Fernández Islands Indonesia Japan Ogasawara United States Hawaii Palmyra Atoll

Associated states
of New Zealand

Niue
Cook Islands

Dependencies and
other territories

Australia	Ashmore and Cartier Islands Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Coral Sea Islands Norfolk Island
United States	American Samoa Baker Island Guam Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Midway Atoll Northern Mariana Islands Wake Island
Others	French Polynesia / New Caledonia / Wallis and Futuna France Tokelau New Zealand Pitcairn Islands UK

¹ Often included in Southeast Asia

Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of South America

Sovereign
states

Entirely	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela
Partly	France French Guiana the Netherlands Aruba Bonaire Curaçao

United Kingdom
- Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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