A week ago this past Thursday we successfully removed a large sauropod tibia from the quarry! This lower leg bone probably belonged to an Apatosaurus. It was initially discovered by our volunteer Tom S. on July 1st as we worked the quarry with our 5-day Moab dig group. Our 3-day dig group participants worked hard [...]

It is officially dig season at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry! Our first dig was on May 25th and went very well. Dinosaur Journey volunteer and castmaker Dorothy found an Allosaurus tooth tip - our first of the year! On June 4th a beautiful Diplodocus tooth with wear facets on two sides was found in the quarry. This was the first [...]

Mymoorapelta was the first ankylosaur discovered in the Jurassic of North America. This dinosaur was discovered in the Morrison Formation (Brushy Basin Member) at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry, located in western Colorado’s Rabbit Valley. It represented a totally new group of dinosaurs in the Morrison Formation, one that hadn’t been found in this rock unit in [...]

Dr. John Foster, paleontologist for the Museum of Western Colorado, and Katie Stephens, new Manager of the BLM McIinnis Canyons National Conservation Area, met at Rabbit Valley and the Mygatt Moore Dinosaur Quarry to review plans for the upcoming dig season. In their hands is the map of the quarry showing the more than 4,000  [...]