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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zimbabwe

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| lat_deg = -19.4

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| lon_deg = 31.2

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| lon_deg = 26.4

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This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zimbabwe.

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GroupFormationPeriodclass="unsortable" | Notes
Gokwe Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|barremian}};" | Early Cretaceousalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Gokwe&group_formation_member=Gokwe Gokwe Formation] at Fossilworks.org
Kadsi Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|tithonian}};" | Tithonianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Kadzi&group_formation_member=Kadzi Kadsi Formation] at Fossilworks.org
Dande Sandstonestyle="background-color: {{period color|oxfordian}};" | Middle-Late Jurassicalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Dande%20Sandstone&group_formation_member=Dande%20Sandstone Dande Sandstone] at Fossilworks.org
Mpandi Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|hettangian}};" | Late Triassic-Early Jurassicalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Mpandi&group_formation_member=Mpandi Mpandi Formation] at Fossilworks.org
rowspan=3 | Upper Karoo GroupForest Sandstone/Vulcanodon Bedsstyle="background-color: {{period color|sinemurian}};" | Hettangian-Sinemurianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Forest%20Sandstone&group_formation_member=Forest%20Sandstone Forest Sandstone] at Fossilworks.org
Pebbly Arkose Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|carnian}};" | Carnianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Pebbly%20Arkose&group_formation_member=Pebbly%20Arkose Pebbly Arkose Formation] at Fossilworks.org
Angwa Sandstonestyle="background-color: {{period color|ladinian}};" | Ladinianalign=center | {{cite journal |journal=Palaeontologia Africana |volume=41 |date=2005 |pages=89–100 |title=A fossil peat deposit from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Zimbabwe with preserved cuticle of Pteridospermopsida and Ginkgoales, and its geological setting |author1=G. Barale |author2=M. Bamford |author3=B. Gómez |author4=T.J. Broderick |author5=M.A. Raath |author6=A. Cadman |url=http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00156797/}}
Nyamandhlovu Sandstone/Pasibas Sandstonestyle="background-color: {{period color|rhaetian}};" | Late Triassicalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Nyamandhlovu%20Sandstones&group_formation_member=Nyamandhlovu%20Sandstones Nyamandhlovu Sandstone] at Fossilworks.org
Beaufort GroupMadumabisa Mudstonestyle="background-color: {{period color|capitanian}};" | Capitanianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=79811 Madumabisa Mudstone] at Fossilworks.org
Ecca Groupstyle="background-color: {{period color|wordian}};" | Wordianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=131109 Sengwe Coalfield] at Fossilworks.org
Wankie Sandstonestyle="background-color: {{period color|kungurian}};" | Sakmarian-Kungurianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Wankie%20Sandstone&group_formation_member=Wankie%20Sandstone Wankie Sandstone] at Fossilworks.org
Black Shale and Coal Groupstyle="background-color: {{period color|sakmarian}};" | Sakmarianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=30990 Black Shale and Coal Group] at Fossilworks.org
Dwyka GroupDwyka Formation
Cycle 3		style="background-color: {{period color|sakmarian}};" | Sakmarianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=125144 Dwyka Formation] at Fossilworks.org

See also

References

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Further reading

  • N. Bertram. 1971. A New Dinosaur Fossil Locality in the Kadsi River Area of the Zambesi Valley. Mennell Society Journal (Detritus) 6:20-21
  • G. Bond. 1973. The palaeontology of Rhodesia. Geological Survey of Rhodesia Bulletin 70:1-121
  • G. Bond. 1968. The flora of the Black Shale and Coal Group (K2) in the mid-Zambezi Basin. Arnoldia, National Museums of Southern Rhodesia Miscellaneous Publications 3:1-2
  • G. Bond, J. F. Wilson, and M. A. Raath. 1970. Upper Karroo pillow lava and a new sauropod horizon in Rhodesia. Nature 227:1339
  • E.S. Gaffney and M.C. McKenna. 1979. A Late Permian captorhinid from Rhodesia. American Museum Novitates (2688)1-15
  • B. G. Gardiner. 1962. Namaichthys schroederi Gürich and other Palaeozoic Fishes from South Africa. Palaeontology 5(1):9-21
  • D. Munyikwa. 1996. Description of the first dinosaurs trackway found in Zimbabwe. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10(6):36-45
  • M. A. Raath. 1972. First record of dinosaur footprints from Rhodesia. Arnoldia 5(37):1-5
  • M. A. Raath, C. C. Smith, and G. Bond. 1970. A new Upper Karroo dinosaur fossil locality on the Lower Angwa River, Sipolilo District, Rhodesia. Arnoldia 4(35):1-10
  • E. F. Riek. 1974. A fossil insect from the Dwyka Series of Rhodesia. Palaeontologia Africana 17:15-17

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