Navarro Group Explained

Navarro Group
Type:	Group
Age:	Late Cretaceous,
Namedfor:	Navarro County, Texas
Namedby:	Benjamin Franklkin Shumard ^[1]
Region:	Arkansas, Texas and Coahuila
Country:	United States and Mexico
Subunits:	Escondido Formation^[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

Notes and References

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