This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Eritrea.
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Group Formation Period Notes Red Series Group Danakil Formation Pleistocene ETE Locality 1312, Afar Depression, Danakil - general at Fossilworks.org Dogali Formation Oligocene Dogali Formation at Fossilworks.org Antalo Limestone Callovian-Tithonian Antalo Limestone at Fossilworks.org
See also Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ethiopia List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Sudan Geology of Eritrea
References
Further reading E. Abbate, A. Albianelli A. Azzaroli, M. Benvenuti, B. Tesfamariam, P. Bruni, N. Cipriani, et al. 1998. A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea. Nature 393:458-460 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. Shoshani, R. C. Walter, M. Abraha, S. Berhe, P. Tassy, W. J. Sanders, G. H. Marchant, Y. Libsekal, T. Ghirmai and D. Zinner. 2006. A proboscidean from the late Oligocene of Eritrea, a ‘‘missing link’’ between early Elephantiformes and Elephantimorpha, and biogeographic implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(46):17296-17301