Antenor Navarro Formation
The Antenor Navarro Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation in Brazil. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[1]
| 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 |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 6.5°S 5.6°W |
| Region | Serrote do Letreiro, Paraiba |
| Country | Brazil |
| Extent | Sousa Subbasin, Rio do Peixe Basin |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Antenor Navarro |
  Antenor Navarro Formation (Brazil) | |
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:[2]
See also
References
- Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- Serrote do Pimenta tracksite at Fossilworks.org
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
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