Took the 2500HD out off-roading again this time on the Dry Mesa Road Jeep Trail and we once again take a shot at finding that Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry. The roads we traveled this time were definitely good ones to practice my off-roading skills. We had a really good time and I was exciting to see what the GMC could handle.


From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Mesa_Quarry...
In 1971, a large theropod phalanx (Torvosaurus tanneri[1]) was discovered at Dry Mesa by Ed and Vivian Jones[2] of Delta, Colorado. The find was reported to James A. Jensen[3] of Brigham Young University (BYU) who commenced quarrying operations in 1972. In 1973, Brigham Young University cooperated with producer Steve Linton and director John Linton in order to produce The Great Dinosaur Discovery, a 1-hour-long color documentary showing Jensen's on-site finds in Dry Mesa. First released on November 13, 1973, in local "Egyptian Theater" in Delta, and subsequently aired on several USA TV channels, The Great Dinosaur Discovery was originally planned to be trimmed to about 30 minutes for educational use.[4] Indeed, to obtain a shortened educational version, the full-length documentary was reduced to a 24-minute-long mini-film which started airing on American television channels throughout the USA as of 1976.

During the four years that spanned from 1972 to 1976, rocks and fossils were stocked at the BYU football stadium until a specific building was constructed in 1976 for the BYU Earth Science Museum,[5] known in the present day as the BYU Museum of Paleontology. Under the direction of the BYU Earth Science Museum, the quarry has been excavated for 13 field seasons. Approximately 4000 bones have been collected, making it one of the most prolific dinosaur producing accumulations in the Morrison Formation. Thirty vertebrate genera are represented in the quarry including dinosaurs, a pterosaur, crocodile, turtle, lungfish, and a prototherian mammal. Twenty-three genera of dinosaurs have been found in the quarry distinguishing it as the most diverse Jurassic dinosaur assemblage. The quarry is especially recognized for its large sauropods, among which Supersaurus vivianae[6] and Ultrasauros macintoshi[7] are the most celebrated finds (Richmond and Morris, 1999).

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