From Kemmerer to Washington, D.C.

Tynsky reflected on that day of the discovery and remembers how he had just returned from a show in Denver and was eager to get back to the fossil quarry here in Wyoming. As the first clank echoed in the quarry with the sound of his chisel against the stone, Tynsky spotted a leg in the corner of the split limestone. Scott Banta was working alongside Tynsky that day. After a closer look, Banta said, “I think you got yourself a horse, Jim!” The specimen measured around 24 inches long with a six-inch skull.