1910
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A discovery of particular interest was a considerable part of a phytosaur skeleton at Fort Lee, NJ,
about 1� mile N of the ferry landing. It was discovered by Messrs. J. E. Hyde, Condit, and Boyle post
graduate students of Prof. Kemp of the Dept. of Geology at Columbia University. The Department
received a skeleton of Ophthhalmosaurus in exchange from Tubingen, Germany and a Cryptoclidus in
exchange from the British Museum(Natural History). Expedition to the Eocene of Wyoming 1910, by
Walter Granger. The party was composed of Walter Granger in charge, Dr. William J. Sinclair of
Princeton University, who accompanied the expedition to do stratigraphic work, Mr. George Olsen and
Mr. William Stein, who formerly was engaged as cook, teamster and collector. Messrs. Sinclair and Olsen
reached Lander on June 7th .Mr. Stein, who had stayed in Lander was reengaged. After a day in
preparation the party moved to the first camp on Beaver Creek about 19 miles below its mouth. On
June 14th the party moved to Wagon-bed Springs at the foot of Beaver Divide, where Mr. Granger
joined them on the 23rd. On June 25th the outfit started eastward along the foot of the Divide, making
one day's camp at Beaver Creek Ridge, Conant Creek, Artificial Lake east of Logan Creek, Box Spring
on Muskrat Creek and head of Muskrat Creek. At the last camp work along the Beaver Divide was
abandoned and the party turned northward toward the Big Horn Basin. Part of the day was spent at
Lost Cabin and on Bridger Creek in order to give Dr. Sinclair opportunity to look over the exposures along
Alkali and Cottonwood Creeks. The party was at Kirby Creek on July 4th. The Big Horn was crossed at
Thermopolis on the 6th. Proceeding down the W side of the river, camps were made at Winchester,
Worland, mouth of Elk Creek and Otto, on the Gray Bull River was reached on July 9th. Here a
permanent camp was established, and collecting in the extensive Wasatch exposures to the S. began
immediately. About July 20th the party moved 7 miles up the river to St. Joe, where the head of Dorsey
Creek and the E and N slopes of Tatman Mountain were explored until Aug. 4th, when they returned to Otto.
On Aug. 8th Sinclair and Olsen with part of the outfit were taken S to Elk Creek, and Granger and Stein moved
the main camp to the ranch of Mr. Hal Blakesley on Dorsey Creek, 2 mi. S. of Otto. Sinclair and Olsen
remained in Dry Camp on Elk Creek until Sept. 10th. Dr. Sinclair left for the east on Sept. 16th. Toward
the latter part of the month the party moved to a ranch 2 mi. NW of Otto so they could work the limited
exposures on the Divide between the Gray Bull River and Dry Creek. These proved rather barren and after
3 days the collecting for the season was brought to a close. Granger and Olsen departed for the east on
Oct. 6th. Expedition to the Laramie Cretaceous of Montana and Alberta, 1910, by Barnum Brown. The
party consisted of Barnum Brown in charge, P. C. Kaisen and Mr. A. E. Davenport of Glasgow, cook and
teamster. Mr. Kaisen, who started in advance, camped near the Trachodon, found the last season
near Willis Ranch, 40 mi. S. of Glasgow, MT on July 1st. Barnum Brown went to Ottawa to study the
Canadian collection from the Red Deer River. He then went to Mt. and reached camp on July 7th. The
Trachodon was evacuated and boxed in 18 days and was shipped from Glasgow on July 24th. Mr.
Davenport drove the outfit from Calgary to Wigmore Ferry on the Red Deer River, there to await the
rest of the party. Barnum Brown and Kaisen went to the village of Red Deer, where the Calgary and
Edmonton road crosses the Red Deer River. At this town there was a sawmill that supplied the timber
for a small rowboat and large flatboat. 3 carpenters built the boats and on Aug. 3rd they began their journey
down river. The first 60 miles goes through a canyon and is filled with boulders and other debris and is
considered dangerous to navigate. Mr. Charles Breamer, an experienced riverman accompanied them
through these sections. The first vertebrate fossils were found about 1 mile above Erickson's Landing,
10 miles directly NE of Red Deer and about 20 miles by river. Here occurs an enormous slide, where
sections of the N wall of the canyon have slipped, en masse, partly choking the river channel. In this
fallen material they found beds of Unios, 10 inches thick. In a layer of small gray pebbles several
mammal jaws and teeth and a few turtle bones were found. It is apparently a local deposit, an old river
channel of the Paskapoo period (Fort Union equivalent). The first coal vein crops out in Gaetz Valley,
its of inferior quality but further on improves. Below the coal veins a marked change occurs in the
beds. Sandy white clay and highly banded light gray with dark carbonaceous seams appear. This is the
Lower Edmonton Fm. The first dinosaur bone was found near Content, where the Red Deer River
makes a bend southward. A Trachodon humerus and some vertebrae. Some poorly preserved bones
were found at every stop made down the river, but not until they reached the mouth of Big Valley,
where occur, on the opposite, west bank the most extensive Bad-lands to be seen on the river. At one
spot an area 30 square feet was filled with bones. From this quarry they took out one complete hind
leg, parts of 4 others, beside a series of caudal vertebrae, jaws and skull bones of Albertosaurus, several
limbs of Ornithomimus and many unidentified bones. They reached Big Valley on Aug. 9th. The rains
came in August this year, and they had 24 rainy days. A Trachodon fore limb was collected near the
quarry and a good specimen of Ornithomimus was collected a mile below. In all they secured 9 boxes of
fossils from this camp. Leaving Big Valley Sept. 5th they floated down the river 5 miles to Beaver
Island, where they camped 2 days and collected a Trachodon scapula. The next camp was made 5 miles
above Tolman's Valley on Sept. 7th where they remained until Sept. 20th. At this camp they made
important finds of hadrosaur, ceratopsian, an Ankylosaurus skull and partial skeleton. From this camp
they moved down Tolman's Ferry Oct. 2nd, where Kaisen fond a large specimen of a hadrosaur,
interesting because a large section of different skin was associated. Brown made a reconnaissance
for next year's work. He returned Oct. 13th and they prepared their boats for winter. Mr. Davenport
returned to the Ankylosaurus quarry to strip an area down to the bone layer. They secured 26 boxes
of bones from the Red Deer River sites.
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