List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania.

Major fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania
Olduvai Formation
Peninj Gorge Group
Pemba Formation
Wembere-Manonga Formation
Nsungwe Formation
Kilwa Group and Kingongo Marl
Galula Formation
Tendaguru Formation
Tanga Limestone
Manda Formation
Middle Tanga Formation
Hatambulo Formation

Map of the Ruhuhu Basin with
Manda Formation in orange
Usili Formation in blue
Ruhuhu Formation in green

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
	Mbuga Clays Formation	Pleistocene-Holocene	[1][2]
Peninj Gorge	Hubu Formation	Gelasian-Calabrian	[3]
	Sambu Lavas Formation	Zanclean-Calabrian	[4]
Vogel River	Olduvai Formation	Pleistocene	[5]
		Zanclean-Gelasian	[6]
	Upper Laetolil Beds	Zanclean	[7]
	Mikindani Formation	Messinian-Pliocene	[8]
	Wembere-Manonga Formation	Miocene-Pliocene	[9]
	Pemba Formation	Early-Middle Miocene	[10]
	Masingini Formation	Early Miocene	[11]
	Pugu Formation	Early Miocene	[12]
Red Sandstone	Nsungwe Formation	Late Oligocene	[13]
	Galula Formation	Aptian-Campanian	[14]
Kilwa	Kivinje Formation	Selandian	[15]
	Nangurukuru Formation	Santonian-late Campanian	[16]
	Lindi Formation	early Cenomanian-late Turonian	[17]
	Kingongo Marl	early Cenomanian	[18]
	Tendaguru Formation	Oxfordian-Berriasian	[19]
	Tanga Limestone	Bathonian	[20]
Songea	Manda Formation	Anisian	[21]
	Usili Formation	Lopingian	[22]
	Ruhuhu Formation	Wordian-Capitanian	[23][24][25]
Beaufort	Middle Tanga Formation	Lopingian	[26]
Karoo	Hatambulo Formation	Wordian-Changhsingian	[27]

See also

• Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa
  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Madagascar
  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Malawi
  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mozambique
  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Seychelles
  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zambia
• Geology of Tanzania

References

1. Mbuga Clays Formation at Fossilworks.org
2. Mbuga Yellow Clays Formation at Fossilworks.org
3. Hubu Formation at Fossilworks.org
4. Sambu Lavas Formation at Fossilworks.org
5. Olduvai Formation at Fossilworks.org
6. Vogel River Series at Fossilworks.org
7. Upper Laetolil Beds at Fossilworks.org
8. Mikindani Formation at Fossilworks.org
9. Wembere-Manonga Formation at Fossilworks.org
10. Pemba Formation at Fossilworks.org
11. Masingini Formation at Fossilworks.org
12. Pugu Formation at Fossilworks.org
13. Nsungwe Formation at Fossilworks.org
14. Galula Formation at Fossilworks.org
15. Kivinje Formation at Fossilworks.org
16. Nangurukuru Formation at Fossilworks.org
17. Lindi Formation at Fossilworks.org
18. Kingongo Marl at Fossilworks.org
19. Tendaguru Formation at Fossilworks.org
20. Tanga Limestone at Fossilworks.org
21. Manda Formation at Fossilworks.org
22. Usili Formation at Fossilworks.org
23. Ruhuhu Formation at Fossilworks.org
24. Ruhuhu Beds at Fossilworks.org
25. Ruhuhu Coalfield at Fossilworks.org
26. Middle Tanga Formation at Fossilworks.org
27. Hatambulo Formation at Fossilworks.org

Further reading

Hatambulo Formation

• Hankel, O. 1987. Lithostratigraphic subdivision of the Karoo rocks of the Luwegu Basin (Tanzania) and their biostratigraphic classification based on microfloras, macrofloras, fossil woods and vertebrates. Geologische Rundschau 76. 539-656.

Kilwa Group

• Berrocoso, Á J.; B. T. Huber; K. G. MacLeod; M. R. Petrizzo; J. A. Lees; I. Wendler; H. Coxall; A. K. Mweneinda, and F. Falzoni, H. Birch, J. M. Singano, S. Haynes, L. Cotton, J. Wendler, P. R. Bown, S. A. Robinson, and J. Gould. 2012. Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania Drilling Project Sites 27-35. Journal of African Earth Sciences 70. 36-57.
• Berrocoso, Á J.; K. G. MacLeod; B. T. Huber; J. A. Lees; I. Wendler; P. R. Bown; A. K. Mweneinda; C. I. Londoño, and J. M. Singano. 2010. Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania drilling project sites 21-26. Journal of African Earth Sciences 57. 47-69.

Kingongo Marl

• Kennedy, W. J., and N. J. Morris. 2018. An early Cenomanian ammonite fauna from near Lindi, Tanzania. Cretaceous Research 87. 84-101.

Mikindani Formation

• Reuter, M.; F. R. Bosellini; A. F. Budd; S. Coric; W. E. Piller, and M. Harzhauser. 2019. High coral reef connectivity across the Indian Ocean is revealed 6–7 Ma ago by a turbid-water scleractinian assemblage from Tanzania (Eastern Africa). Coral Reefs x. ..

Olduvai Formation

• Leakey, M. D., and D. A. Roe. 1994. Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV, and the Masek Beds, 1968-71, 1-5. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Tobias, P. V. 1991. Olduvai Gorge, Parts I-Iv: The Skulls, Endocasts, and Teeth of Homo habilis, 1-4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Gentry, A. W., and A. Gentry. 1978. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 29. 289-446.
• Hay, R. L. 1976. Geology of the Olduvai Gorge, x. University of California Press, Berkeley.
• Greenwood, P. H., and E. J. Todd. 1970. Fish remains from Olduvai. Fossil Vertebrates of Africa 2. 225-241.

Pemba Formation

• Pickford, M. 2008. Middle Miocene vertebrate fauna from Pemba Island, Tanzania. South African Journal of Science 104. 231-237.

Peninj Gorge Group

• Geraads, D. 1987. La faune des depots pleistocenes de Ouest du lac Natron (Tanzanie) interpretation biostratigraphique. Sci.Geol.Bulletin 40. 167-184.
• Ndessokia, P. 1987. Paleofauna composition and paleoenvironment of Peninj (Morita Nane Site) in West Lake Natron Basin, northern Tanzania. Sci.Geol.Bulletin 40. 203-208.
• Isaac, G. 1967. The stratigraphy of the Peninj group:early middle Pleistocene formations west of Lake Natron. In: Background to evolution in Africa, 229-257. x.
• Isaac, G. 1965. The stratigraphy of the Peninj beds and the provenance of the Natron australopithecine mandible. Quaternaria 7. 101-113.

Pugu Formation

• Schluter, T. 1997. Geology of East Africa, 1-484. x.

Tanga Limestone

• Thomas, H.D. 1963. Corals and the correlation of the Tanga Limestone of Tanganyika. Overseas Geology and Mineral Resources 9. 30-38.

Wembere-Manonga Formation

• Van Damme, D., and A. Gautier. 1997. Late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusks of the Wembere-Manonga Formation, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania, 351-360. Plenum Press, New York and London.
• Harrison, T., and M. L. Mbago. 1997. Introduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania, 1-32. Plenum Press, New York and London.