Antenor Navarro Formation

Antenor Navarro Formation
Stratigraphic range: Berriasian-Barremian ~
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Rio do Peixe Group
Underlies	Sousa Formation
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Siltstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates	6.7°S 38.2°W / -6.7; -38.2
Approximate paleocoordinates	6.5°S 5.6°W / -6.5; -5.6
Region	Serrote do Letreiro, Paraiba
Country	Brazil
Extent	Sousa Subbasin, Rio do Peixe Basin
Type section
Named for	Antenor Navarro
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.

Etymology

Antenor Navarro, 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.

Fossil content

Among others the following fossils have been found in the formation:

• 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

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