Antenor Navarro Formation

The Antenor Navarro Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation in Brazil. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.

Etymology

, 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.

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

References

Bibliography

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