This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia.

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units Group Formation Period Notes Bouri Formation Middle Pleistocene Bouri Formation at Fossilworks.org Konso Formation Gelasian - Calabrian 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. Gadeb Plain Group Mio Goro Formation Gelasian-Calabrian Mio Goro Formation at Fossilworks.org Gadeb Formation Piacenzian-Gelasian Gadeb Formation at Fossilworks.org Awash Group Wehaietu Formation Pliocene-Holocene Wehaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org Meadura Formation Quaternary Meadura Formation at Fossilworks.org Matabaietu Formation Zanclean-Pleistocene Matabaietu Formation at Fossilworks.org Hadar Formation Zanclean-Gelasian Hadar Formation at Fossilworks.org Sagantole Formation Miocene-Pleistocene Sagantole Formation at Fossilworks.org Chorora Formation Serravallian-Tortonian Chorora Formation at Fossilworks.org Adu Asa Formation Late Miocene Adu Asa Formation at Fossilworks.org Omo Group Omo Kibish Formation Late Pleistocene Kalam Formation Early Pleistocene Kalam Formation at Fossilworks.org Shungura Formation Pliocene-Gelasian Shungura Formation at Fossilworks.org Mursi Formation Zanclean Mursi Formation at Fossilworks.org Usno Formation Pliocene Usno Formation at Fossilworks.org Fejej Basalts Fejej Formation Zanclean-Pleistocene Fejej Formation at Fossilworks.org Mush Valley Formation Early Miocene 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/10.1086/663967Ellen 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. Chilga Formation Chattian Chilga at Fossilworks.org Amba Aradam Formation Early Aptian Amba Aradam Formation at Fossilworks.org Agula Shale Tithonian Adefris, D., Nton, M. E., Boboye, O. A., & Atnafu, B. (2023, September 4). Petroleum source rock characteristics of the Mesozoic... Paradigm. https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/rmzmag-2021-0019 Mugher Mudstone Tithonian Mugher Mudstone at Fossilworks.org Antalo Limestone Callovian-Kimmeridgian Antalo Limestone at Fossilworks.org Adigrat Sandstone Late Triassic-Oxfordian Adigrat Sandstone at Fossilworks.org Enticho Sandstone Late Ordovician 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

See also

Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Djibouti List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Eritrea List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kenya List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Sudan Geology of Ethiopia

References

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) [The rhinoceroses and chalicotheres (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Omo Valley localities in Ethiopia]. 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-Äthiopien [Jurassic megafossils from the Antalo Limestone of northern Ethiopia]. 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