The Dinosaur Beds is a geological formation in Malawi whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous.

The age of the deposit is poorly constrained, but is likely to date from the Barremian to Aptian.

[1] Dinosaurs, turtles and crocodylomorphs remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

It consists of two members, a lower unfossiliferous member consisting of deep red stained sandstones, and an upper fossiliferous member consisting of white sands and grey to red mudstones and siltstones.

The upper member is 210 m thick in the vicinity of the CD-9 locality.