Navarro Group

{{Short description|Geological Group in North America}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Navarro Group | image = | caption = | type = Group | age = Late Cretaceous, {{fossilrange|Maastrichtian}} | prilithology = | otherlithology = | namedfor = Navarro County, Texas | namedby = Benjamin Franklin Shumard<ref>{{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}}</ref> | region = Arkansas, Texas and Coahuila | country = United States and Mexico | coordinates = | unitof = | subunits = Escondido Formation<ref>{{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=}}</ref> | underlies = | overlies = | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = | map_caption = }} [[File:Austin Chalk stratigraphic column in Texas.png|thumb|300px|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.<ref>{{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|archive-date= 25 March 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home|url-status= dead}}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Earth sciences|United States|Paleontology}} * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Arkansas * Paleontology in Arkansas * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas * Paleontology in Texas

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Category:Geologic groups of Arkansas Category:Geologic groups of Texas Category:Cretaceous System of North America