Antenor Navarro Formation

Antenor Navarro Formation Stratigraphic range: Berriasian-Barremian ~145–125 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Type	Geological formation
Unit of
Underlies	Sousa Formation
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Siltstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates	6°42′S 38°12′W / 6.7°S 38.2°W / -6.7; -38.2Coordinates: 6°42′S 38°12′W / 6.7°S 38.2°W / -6.7; -38.2
Approximate paleocoordinates	6°30′S 5°36′W / 6.5°S 5.6°W / -6.5; -5.6
Region	, Paraiba
Country	Brazil
Extent	,
Type section
Named for
Antenor Navarro Formation (Brazil)

The Antenor Navarro Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation in Brazil. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.^[1]

Etymology[]

 [pt], for whom the formation was named, had been a major leader of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, which brought Getulio Vargas to power. He was killed in a plane crash in 1932, at the age of 34, and his name commemorated also in hundreds of street names and public institutions in Brazilian cities.^{[citation needed]}

Fossil content[]

Among others the following fossils have been found in the formation:^[2]

• Caririchnium magnificum
• Staurichnium diogenis
• Carnosauria indet.
• Nodosauridae indet.
• Sauropoda indet.

See also[]

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with sauropodomorph tracks
    • Sauropod tracks

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2

Further reading[]

• G. Leonardi and M. F. C. Dos Santos. 2006. New dinosaur tracksites from the Sousa Lower Cretaceous Basin (Paraíba, Brasil). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 81:5-21