List Of Fossiliferous Stratigraphic Units In Malawi
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Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeas ...
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Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa These lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa enumerate the rock layers which preserve the fossilized remains of ancient life in Africa by the modern countries wherein they are found. Geographical atlas C ...
** List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mozambique **
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zambia This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Zambia. __NOTOC__ See also * Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Africa ** List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Angola ** List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in B ...
* Geology of Malawi


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Further reading

* T. G. Bromage, F. Schrenk, and Y.M. Juwayeyi. 1995. Paleobiogeography of the Malawi Rift: Age and vertebrate paleontology of the Chiwondo Beds, northern Malawi. ''Journal of Human Evolution'' 28:37–57 * 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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Malawi
Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeas ...
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units
Fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...