Antenor Navarro Formation
# Antenor Navarro Formation

The Antenor Navarro Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation in Brazil. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.

## Etymology

Antenor Navarro [pt], for whom the formation was named, had been a major leader of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, which brought Getulio Vargas to power. He was killed in a plane crash in 1932, at the age of 34, and his name commemorated also in hundreds of street names and public institutions in Brazilian cities.

## Fossil content

Among others the following fossils have been found in the formation:

* Caririchnium magnificum
* Staurichnium diogenis
* Carnosauria indet.
* Nodosauridae indet.
* Sauropoda indet.
