Navarro Group

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Navarro Group
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
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]
Navarro Group stratigraphic column in Texas Austin Chalk stratigraphic column in Texas.png
Navarro Group stratigraphic column in Texas

The Navarro Group is a geologic group in Arkansas, Texas and Coahuila, Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. [3]

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References

  1. "National Geologic Map Database entry: Escondido". ngmdb.usgs.gov. United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 8 November 2019.
  2. Shumard, B.F. (1862). "Descriptions of new Cretaceous fossils from Texas". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 8: 189.
  3. Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database" . Retrieved 17 December 2021.