List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania

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Map of the Ruhuhu Basin with
Manda Formation in orange
Usili Formation in blue
Ruhuhu Formation in green Lifua Member of the Manda beds.png
Map of the Ruhuhu Basin with
Manda Formation in orange
Usili Formation in blue
Ruhuhu Formation in green

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania .

Contents

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

GroupFormationPeriodNotes
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

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peninj Mandible</span> Hominin fossil

The Peninj Mandible(Peninj 1), also called Natron mandible, is the fossilized lower jaw and teeth of an australopithecine specimen, likely that of Australopithecus boisei or a similar population. It was discovered in West Lake Natron, in Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region of Tanzania by Kamoya Kimeu, Glynn Isaac, and Richard Leakey in 1964.

The Dukamaje Formation is a geological formation in Niger and Nigeria whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. A wealth of Mosasaur fossils have also been recovered from this formation, particularly from the area around Mt. Igdaman.

The Ankarafantsika Formation is a Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) geologic formation of the Mahajanga Basin in the Boeny region of Madagascar, Africa. The fine-grained sandstones of the formation were deposited in a fluvial to lacustrine environment.

The Grainger Formation is a geologic formation in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. It preserves fossils dating back to the early Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous period.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tongue River Member</span>

The Tongue River Member is the uppermost geologic member of the Fort Union Formation in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming. The strata are yellow or light-colored massive sandstones and numerous thick coal beds.

The Kwataboahegan Formation is a geologic formation in the Moose River and Hudson Bay basins in northern Ontario, containing fossils from the Lower to Middle Devonian period. It is characterized by brown bituminous stromatoporoid-coral floatstone to bindstone and stromatoporoid-coral-crinoid wackestone-packstone-rudstones, interbedded with light grey, bioclastic wackestone-packstone.

The Schrambach Formation is a geologic formation in the Northern Limestone Alps of Austria and Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Early Cretaceous period.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geology of Tanzania</span>

The geology of Tanzania began to form in the Precambrian, in the Archean and Proterozoic eons, in some cases more than 2.5 billion years ago. Igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock forms the Archean Tanzania Craton, which is surrounded by the Proterozoic Ubendian belt, Mozambique Belt and Karagwe-Ankole Belt. The region experienced downwarping of the crust during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, as the massive Karoo Supergroup deposited. Within the past 100 million years, Tanzania has experienced marine sedimentary rock deposition along the coast and rift formation inland, which has produced large rift lakes. Tanzania has extensive, but poorly explored and exploited natural resources, including coal, gold, diamonds, graphite and clays.

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
Kilwa Group
Kingongo Marl
Mikindani Formation
Olduvai Formation
Pemba Formation
Peninj Gorge Group
Pugu Formation
Tanga Limestone
Wembere-Manonga Formation