Gray Fossil Site
Early salvage operations:

Images taken late June, 2000 by Tennessee Department of Transportation geologist Harry Moore, while bones were being recovered from in front of the bulldozers.


Partial tapir skull in dark layered sediment.


Another partial tapir skull.


Partial turtle carapace.


Probable Teleoceros rhino jaw, as originally recovered.


T.D.O.T. inspector Larry Hathaway with a chunk of proboscidian (order Proboscidea, any big elephant-like creature) bone. Inspector Henry Ensor in background.


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