List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania
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Manda Formation in orange
Usili Formation in blue
Ruhuhu Formation in green
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania.
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units
Group | Formation | Period | Notes |
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Mbuga Clays Formation | Pleistocene-Holocene | [1][2] | |
Peninj Gorge | Humbu 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
- ^ Mbuga Clays Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Mbuga Yellow Clays Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Hubu Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Sambu Lavas Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Olduvai Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Vogel River Series at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Upper Laetolil Beds at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Mikindani Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Wembere-Manonga Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Pemba Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Masingini Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Pugu Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Nsungwe Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Galula Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kivinje Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Nangurukuru Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Lindi Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kingongo Marl at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Tendaguru Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Tanga Limestone at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Manda Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Usili Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ruhuhu Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ruhuhu Beds at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ruhuhu Coalfield at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Middle Tanga Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ 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 (2): 539–656, Bibcode:1987GeoRu..76..539H, doi:10.1007/BF01821091
- Kilwa Group
- Berrocoso, Á J.; Huber, B. T.; MacLeod, K. G.; Petrizzo, M. R.; Lees, J. A.; Wendler, I.; Coxall, H.; Mweneinda, A. K.; Falzoni, H. Birch, J. M. Singano, S. Haynes, L. Cotton, J. Wendler, P. R. Bown, S. A. Robinson, and J. Gould, F. (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, Bibcode:2012JAfES..70...36J, doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2012.05.006
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Berrocoso, Á J.; MacLeod, K. G.; Huber, B. T.; Lees, J. A.; Wendler, I.; Bown, P. R.; Mweneinda, A. K.; Londoño, C. I.; Singano, J. M. (2010), "Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania drilling project sites 21-26", Journal of African Earth Sciences, 57 (1): 47–69, Bibcode:2010JAfES..57...47J, doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2009.07.010
- Kingongo Marl
- Kennedy, W. J.; Morris, N. J. (2018), "An early Cenomanian ammonite fauna from near Lindi, Tanzania", Cretaceous Research, 87: 84–101, Bibcode:2018CrRes..87...84K, doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.02.013
- Mikindani Formation
- Reuter, M.; Bosellini, F. R.; Budd, A. F.; Coric, S.; Piller, W. E.; Harzhauser, M. (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.; Roe, D. A. (1994), Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds III, IV, and the Masek Beds, 1968-71, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1–5
- Tobias, P. V (1991), Olduvai Gorge, Parts I-Iv: The Skulls, Endocasts, and Teeth of Homo habilis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1–4
- Gentry, A. W.; Gentry, A. (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, University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. x
- Greenwood, P. H.; Todd, E. J. (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, doi:10.3406/sgeol.1987.1758
- 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, doi:10.3406/sgeol.1987.1760
- Isaac, G (1967), The stratigraphy of the Peninj group:early middle Pleistocene formations west of Lake Natron. In: Background to evolution in Africa, x, pp. 229–257
- 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, x, pp. 1–484
- 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.; Gautier, A. (1997), Late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusks of the Wembere-Manonga Formation, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania, Plenum Press, New York and London, pp. 351–360
- Harrison, T.; Mbago, M. L. (1997), Introduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania, Plenum Press, New York and London, pp. 1–32
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Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of Africa
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- Angola
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- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
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- Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
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- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
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- 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
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States with limited
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- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Somaliland