List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cameroon

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Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cameroon

Logbadjeck Formation

Mungo River Formation

Igumale Formation

Koum Formation

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cameroon.

Formation	Member	Period	Notes
Logbadjeck Formation		Coniacian-Early Campanian	^[1]
Mungo River Formation		Late Turonian-Santonian	^[2]
Koum Formation	Grés de Gaba	Aptian-Albian	^[3]
Koum Formation	Mbissirri	Aptian-Albian	^[3]

References

J. D. Congleton. 1990. Vertebrate Paleontology of the Koum Basin, Northern Cameroon, and Archosaurian Paleobiogeography in the Early Cretaceous. Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas xv-245
L. J. Flynn and M. Brunet. 1989. Early Cretaceous vertebrates from Cameroon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(3, suppl.):21A
L. J. Flynn, A. Brillanceau, M. Brunet, Y. Coppens, J. Dejax, M. Duperon-Laudoueneix, G. Ekodeck, K. M. Flanagan, E. Heintz, J. Hell, L. L. Jacobs, D. R. Pilbeam, S. Sen and S. Djallo. 1987. Vertebrate fossils from Cameroon, West Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):469-471
L. L. Jacobs, K. M. Flanagan, J. Dejax and M. Brunet. 1986. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of Cameroun, west Africa. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 16
S. Kiel and K. Bandel. 1999. The Pugnellidae, a new stromboidean family (Gastropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 73(1/2):47-58
M. J. Ntamak-Nida, B. Ketchemen-Tandia, R. V. Ewane, J. P. Lissock, and P. Courville. 2006. Nouvelles données sur les Mollusques et autres macro-organismes campaniens de Sikoum (Centre-Est du sous bassin de Douala-Cameroun): intérêts bio-chronologiques et paléo-écologiques. Africa Geoscience Review 13(4):385-394
R. A. Reyment. 1955. The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons. Geological Survey of Nigeria Bulletin 25:1-112

v t e Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of the countries and dependencies of Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Territories and dependencies	Îles Éparses / Mayotte / Réunion France Pantelleria / Pelagie Islands Italy Madeira Portugal Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía Spain Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha UK Socotra Yemen Western Sahara¹
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
¹ Unclear sovereignty

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cameroon

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