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January 29, 2012, Sunday.
     It was a beautiful day in the field as we went to collect the phytosaur skull I discovered las October. There had been some precipitation at the locality since our last visit. Today I had three students with me and it was some of their first time to jacket a specimen so it went a little slower than with Gretchen and me. After jacketing the specimen, we searched the area but didn't find much. I haven't gone through what the students found yet. I collected some unionid bivalves, some coprolites, some osteoderms, phytosaur and paracrocodylomorph teeth, and an archosauromorph ilium, 
Bill Mueller with field crew jacketing a Triassic phytosaur skull in the Tecovas Formation of the Doockum Group.
Jacketing skull

Triassic phytosaur and paracrocodylomorph teeth collected from the Tecovas Formation of the Dockum Group, West Texas
Triassic teeth


 
December 30, 2011, Friday.
     I hope you all have a wonderful New Year's Eve and New Year's day. Just another candle and another trip around the sun.
     I am planning on this being a very productive year. Hopefully we will be able to go to the field more this year than we did last year. We just endured the driest year in Lubbock's history. To the right are my recent additions to my comparative collection: 45 cm Alligator, 14 cm Castor, and 14 cm Chelydra
Alligator, beaver, and turtle skull
New comparative skulls

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