List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Malawi

Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Malawi

Group	Formation	Period	Notes
	Chiwondo Beds	Pliocene-Holocene	^[1]
Lupata Group	Dinosaur Beds	Aptian	^[2]
	Chiweta Beds	Wuchiapingian	^[3]

References

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J. D. Clark and C.V. Haynes. 1970. An elephant butchery site at Mwaganda's Village, Karonga, Malawi, and its relevance for Paleolithic archaeology. Quaternaria 13:305–354
F. Dixey. 1925. The discovery of fossil reptiles. Annual Report of the Geological Survey Department for the Year 1924, Nyasaland Protectorate 1924:7
S. H. Haughton. 1926. On Karroo [sic] vertebrates from Nyasaland. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 29:69–83
L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, Z.M. Kaufulu and W.R. Downs. 1990. The Dinosaur Beds of northern Malawi, Africa. National Geographic Research 6(2):196–204
O. Kullmar, O. Sandrock, R. Abel, F. Schrenk, T. Bromage and Y. Juwayeyi. 1999. The first Paranthropus from the Malawi Rift. Journal of Human Evolution 37:121–127
P. A. Meylan, B.S. Weig, and R. Wood. 1990. Fossil soft-shelled turtles of the Lake Turkana Basin, Africa. Copeia 1:508–528
F. Schrenk, T.G. Bromage, C.G. Betzler, U. Ring, and Y.M. Juwayeyi. 1993. Oldest Homo and Pliocene biogeography of the Malawi Rift. Nature 365:833–836

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