Antenor Navarro Formation

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| type = Geological formation

| age = Berriasian-Barremian
~{{fossil range|145|125}}

| period = Early Cretaceous

| prilithology = Sandstone

| otherlithology = Siltstone, conglomerate

| namedfor = Antenor Navarro

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| region = Serrote do Letreiro, Paraíba

| country = Brazil

| coordinates = {{coord|6.7|S|38.2|W|display=inline,title}}

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| unitof = Rio do Peixe Group

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| underlies = Sousa Formation

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| extent = Sousa Subbasin, Rio do Peixe Basin

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| lat_deg = -6.7

| lon_deg = -38.2

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The Antenor Navarro Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation in Brazil. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

Etymology

{{ill|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|date=July 2020}}

Fossil content

Among others the following fossils have been found in the formation:[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=58792 Serrote do Pimenta tracksite] at Fossilworks.org

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Bibliography

{{citation |last1=Weishampel |first1=David B. |author2-link=Peter Dodson |last2=Dodson |first2=Peter |author3-link=Halszka Osmólska |last3=Osmólska |first3=Halszka |year=2004 |title=The Dinosauria, 2nd edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C |publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press |pages=1–880 |accessdate=2019-02-21 |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |author1-link=David B. Weishampel }}

Antenor Navarro Formation

Etymology

Fossil content

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