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 ~145–125 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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, Paraíba
Country	Brazil
Extent	Sousa Subbasin, Rio do Peixe Basin
Type section
Named for	Antenor Navarro
Antenor Navarro Formation (Brazil)

Etymology

Antenor Navarro [pt], for whom the formation was named, had been a major leader of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, which brought Getúlio 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