Barnum Brown and his team uncovered approximately 4,000 fossil bones at the Howe Quarry site outside Shell, Wyoming. The sheer scale of the find was staggering—and completely surprising.

When paleontologist Barnum Brown organized a dinosaur excavation to the Howe property, he initially expected to excavate two skeletons of sauropod dinosaurs—but soon after opening the quarry, the team realized that the site far exceeded their expectations.

In 1934, Barnum Brown (aka “Mr. Bones”) excavated sauropod bones in the Morrison Formation at the Howe Quarry for the American Museum of Natural History. The quarry is located in the Coyote basin, a sub-basin of the Bighorn Basin, about nine miles north-northwest of Shell.

Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), [1] commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. He discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.

In 1934, Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History in New York (AMNH) led a large-scale dinosaur excavation in northern Wyoming, where he had found bones two years earlier.

Howe Quarry is one of the most enigmatic and famous single dinosaur sites in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. It was discovered sometime in the 1920s, on the land of Barker M. Howe, north of Shell, Wyoming (fig. 1), and brought to the attention of Barnum Brown in 1932 by Nellie Austin, a local fossil enthusiast (Brown, 1935a).

In 1933, based on information furnished by by Mrs. M. L. Austin, an amateur fossil collector, Barnum Brown (1873-1963), uncovered a bone deposit on the Barker Howe Ranch near the base of the Bighorn Mountains.

Jun 15, 2016 · In 1934, Barnum Brown from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York opened the Howe Quarry east of Greybull, Wyoming. This expedition was funded by Sinclair Oil and resulted...

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Expedition to the Hell Creek beds and Judith River beds of Montana for Dinosaurs, June - Oct., Barnum Brown. The Fort Peck dam, across the Missouri River was complete this summer. A lake with 1,600 miles shore line will be created flooding much of the classic hunting fields for Cretaceous dinosaurs.