List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Tanzania.

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


List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units

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Group Formation Period Notes
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]

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References

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Further reading

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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
Kingongo Marl
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
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
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