In NE-Africa up to now from three regions are known fossil plants of Permo-Carboniferous age.
Past year Geologists from the University Dongola have found some new fossil plants in the Wadi Halfa.
Recently tourists have found further interesting plant fossils in the Gilf Kebir region (SW-Egypt).

1. ) Gilf Kebir- Uweinat Region (Egypt/Libya)

2. ) Suez-Sinai region (Egypt)
The Permo-Carboniferous succession in the Gulf of Suez region is subdivided into: the Abu Thora Fm. (Late Visean-Early Westphalian), the Abu Durba Fm. (Middle Westphalian), and the Aheimer Fm. (Late Westphalian/Stephanian-Early Permian). The Abu Thora and Abu Durba formations of Sinai are coeval with the Abu Darag Fm. in the Northern Galala. The Aheimer Fm. corresponds to the Ataqa Fm. in the subsurface of the Gulf of Suez. These clastic-dominated deposits reflect shallow subtidal, prograding shoreline and fluviatile conditions. They overlie conformably open marine Early Carboniferous carbonates of the Um Bogma Fm. and are overlain unconformably by continental red bed succession of Late Permian-Triassic age known as the Qiseib Fm.. Stratigraphic correlations with equivalent units recorded from the southern Tethyan basins indicate that great areas of North Africa and the Near East were situated near the southern margin of the Tethyan sea during most of the Late Carboniferous-Early Permian time.

3. ) Wadi Halfa area (Sudan)
Most of northern Sudan was part of a regional high. Fluvio-continental and nearshore facies were deposited only in northwestern and northeastern part of the Sudan. Recent work in the northern Sudan, such as Wadi Halfa area, indicated the presence of deposits ranging in age from Carboniferous to Permotriassic. The evidence of continental sediments is based on the presence of Pecopteris aff. permica, Cyclostigma, Calamites, Sigillaria aff. boblayi. Nearshore sediments at the base of section are indicated by the presence of trace fossils (e.g. Arthrophycus).
The recently find of Rhodea sp. in the western direction of Wadi Halfa (Argien area) is a proof for Upper Carboniferous in the region.
South of Wadi Halfa are outcrops the Permo-Triassic Lakia Formation in the Jebel Toshka. On top of the section is found Pterophyllum nubiense L.-NICOL. Very rich is Pterophyllum in the top layers of Lakia Fm. south of Selima.

Permo-Carboniferous paleogeographic situation