List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Eritrea

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Eritrea.

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Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Eritrea
Danakil Formation
Dogali Formation
Antalo Limestone

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
Red Series Group	Danakil Formation	Pleistocene
	Dogali Formation	Oligocene
	Antalo Limestone	Callovian-Tithonian

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

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