Navarro Group
| Navarro Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, | |
| Type | Group |
| Sub-units | Escondido Formation[1] |
| Location | |
| Region | Arkansas, Texas and Coahuila |
| Country | United States and Mexico |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Navarro County, Texas |
| Named by | Benjamin Franklin Shumard[2] |
The Navarro Group is a geologic group in Arkansas, Texas and Coahuila, Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.[3]
See also
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Arkansas
- Paleontology in Arkansas
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas
- Paleontology in Texas
References
- ^ "National Geologic Map Database entry: Escondido". ngmdb.usgs.gov. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ^ Shumard, B.F. (1862). "Descriptions of new Cretaceous fossils from Texas". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 8: 189.
- ^ Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.