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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia.


List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units※

Group Formation Period Notes
Bouri Formation Middle Pleistocene
Konso Formation Gelasian - Calabrian
Gadeb Plain Group Mio Goro Formation Gelasian-Calabrian
Gadeb Formation Piacenzian-Gelasian
Awash Group Wehaietu Formation Pliocene-Holocene
Meadura Formation Quaternary
Matabaietu Formation Zanclean-Pleistocene
Hadar Formation Zanclean-Gelasian
Sagantole Formation Miocene-Pleistocene
Chorora Formation Serravallian-Tortonian
Adu Asa Formation Late Miocene
Omo Group Omo Kibish Formation Late Pleistocene
Kalam Formation Early Pleistocene
Shungura Formation Pliocene-Gelasian
Mursi Formation Zanclean
Usno Formation Pliocene
Fejej Basalts Fejej Formation Zanclean-Pleistocene
Mush Valley Early Miocene
Chilga Formation Chattian
Amba Aradam Formation Early Aptian
Mugher Mudstone Tithonian
Antalo Limestone Callovian-Kimmeridgian
Adigrat Sandstone Late Triassic-Oxfordian
Enticho Sandstone Late Ordovician

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

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) ※. 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-Ă„thiopien ※. 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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