List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia.

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

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units
GroupFormationPeriodNotes
Bouri FormationMiddle Pleistocene[1]
Gadeb Plain GroupMio Goro FormationGelasian-Calabrian[2]
Gadeb FormationPiacenzian-Gelasian[3]
Awash GroupWehaietu FormationPliocene-Holocene[4]
Meadura FormationQuaternary[5]
Matabaietu FormationZanclean-Pleistocene[6]
Hadar FormationZanclean-Gelasian[7]
Sagantole FormationMiocene-Pleistocene[8]
Chorora FormationSerravallian-Tortonian[9]
Adu Asa FormationLate Miocene[10]
Omo GroupOmo Kibish FormationLate Pleistocene[11]
Kalam FormationEarly Pleistocene[12]
Shungura FormationPliocene-Gelasian[13]
Mursi FormationZanclean[14]
Usno FormationPliocene[15]
Fejej BasaltsFejej FormationZanclean-Pleistocene[16]
Amba Aradam FormationEarly Aptian[17]
Mugher MudstoneTithonian[18]
Antalo LimestoneCallovian-Kimmeridgian[19][20]
Adigrat SandstoneLate Triassic-Oxfordian[21]

See also

References
  1. Bouri Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. Mio Goro Formation at Fossilworks.org
  3. Gadeb Formation at Fossilworks.org
  4. Wehaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org
  5. Meadura Formation at Fossilworks.org
  6. Matabaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org
  7. Hadar Formation at Fossilworks.org
  8. Sagantole Formation at Fossilworks.org
  9. Chorora Formation at Fossilworks.org
  10. Adu Asa Formation at Fossilworks.org
  11. "The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
  12. Kalam Formation at Fossilworks.org
  13. Shungura Formation at Fossilworks.org
  14. Mursi Formation at Fossilworks.org
  15. Usno Formation at Fossilworks.org
  16. Fejej Formation at Fossilworks.org
  17. Amba Aradam Formation at Fossilworks.org
  18. Mugher Mudstone at Fossilworks.org
  19. Antalo Limestone at Fossilworks.org
  20. 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.
  21. 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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