Navarro Group

{{Short description|Geological Group in North America}}

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| type = Group

| age = Late Cretaceous, {{fossilrange|Maastrichtian}}

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| namedfor = Navarro County, Texas

| namedby = Benjamin Franklin Shumard{{cite journal|last1=Shumard|first1=B.F.|author-link=Benjamin Franklin Shumard |title=Descriptions of new Cretaceous fossils from Texas|journal=Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History|date=1862|volume=8|page=189}}

| region = Arkansas, Texas and Coahuila

| country = United States and Mexico

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| subunits = Escondido Formation{{cite web |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/Units/Escondido_7656.html |title=National Geologic Map Database entry: Escondido |author= |date= |website=ngmdb.usgs.gov |publisher=United States Geological Survey |access-date=8 November 2019 |quote=}}

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The Navarro Group is a geologic group in Arkansas, Texas and Coahuila, Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.{{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org|access-date= 17 December 2021}}

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Category:Geologic groups of Arkansas

Category:Geologic groups of Texas

Category:Cretaceous System of North America

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