Waco Pit
17 Nov 2007

On 11 Nov 2007 we took part in a small field trip with Adam Armstrong, Polly Mullinex and Roger Fry to the scientific study pit in Waco, Texas.   This pit exposes the Del Rio Formation. 

Ammonites: Adkinsia, Engonoceras, Mantelliceras, Scaphites (loose coiled);  Heteromorph ammonites: Plesioturrilities, Mariella;  Baculites: (straight shelled ammonite);  Nautiloids:  Cymatoceras, rhyncholites (beaks);  Echinoids: Coenholectypus, Goniophorus, Salenia, Cidaris? (spines, plates); Asteroids: starfish, brittle stars;  Gastropods: Turritella;  Shark teeth: Cretalamna, Leptostyrax, Ptychodus, others;  Fish: Pycnodont teeth, loose vertebrae; Oysters: Gryphea, Ilymatogyra, Plicatula; Scallops: Neithea (Pecten); Brachiopods: Waconella (Kingena);  Coral: solitary corals

Updated 7 March 2023 with extra and larger pics.

Fossils:

Unloading.

Added 2023.		 Roz

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Adam and Polly
 
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Roger, Roz, Polly, Adam
 
Added 2023.		 Adam and Polly taking a break.

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Cidaris sp. type echinoid plates, spines
 
Collected 17 Nov 2007.		 Pycnodont sp. fish tooth
 
Collected 17 Nov 2007.
Otoscaphites subevolutus (Scaphites)
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Collected 17 Nov 2007.		 Submatelliceras brazoense

Collected 17 Nov 2007.
Baculites sp.

Collected 17 Nov 2007.		 Mariella sp.

Collected 17 Nov 2007.
Rhyncholites (nautiloid beak) 

Collected 17 Nov 2007.		 a coral

Collected 17 Nov 2007.

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Coenholectypus sp. 

Collected 17 Nov 2007.		 Gastropods

Collected 17 Nov 2007.