# Navarro Group

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{{Short description|Geological Group in North America}}
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| name           = Navarro Group
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| type           = [Group](/source/Group_(stratigraphy))
| age            = [Late Cretaceous](/source/Late_Cretaceous), {{fossilrange|Maastrichtian}}
| prilithology   =
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| namedfor       = [Navarro County](/source/Navarro_County%2C_Texas), Texas
| namedby        = [Benjamin Franklin Shumard](/source/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](/source/Arkansas), [Texas](/source/Texas) and [Coahuila](/source/Coahuila)
| country        = [United States](/source/United_States) and [Mexico](/source/Mexico)
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| subunits       = [Escondido Formation](/source/Escondido_Formation)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/Units/Escondido_7656.html |title=National Geologic Map Database entry: Escondido |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=ngmdb.usgs.gov |publisher=[United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey) |access-date=8 November 2019 |quote=}}</ref>
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[[File:Austin Chalk stratigraphic column in Texas.png|thumb|300px|Navarro Group [stratigraphic column](/source/stratigraphic_column) in Texas]]
The '''Navarro Group''' is a [geologic group](/source/Group_(geology)) in [Arkansas](/source/Arkansas), [Texas](/source/Texas) and [Coahuila](/source/Coahuila), [Mexico](/source/Mexico). It preserves [fossils](/source/fossils) dating back to the [Cretaceous](/source/Cretaceous) [period](/source/Period_(geology)).<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](/source/List_of_fossiliferous_stratigraphic_units_in_Arkansas)
* [Paleontology in Arkansas](/source/Paleontology_in_Arkansas)
* [List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas](/source/List_of_fossiliferous_stratigraphic_units_in_Texas)
* [Paleontology in Texas](/source/Paleontology_in_Texas)

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

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