Jeff Dornbusch, a resident in the region, was out hiking in the mountains when he came across some unusual rocks that were later identified as pieces of the ancient fossil. He reported his accidental discovery to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
Jeffrey Dornbusch (1965-1968), Jan Zeitz (1957-1961), Daniel Spitzer (1967-1971), Charles Carr (1975-1977), John Hultgren (1968-1972), Cary Hard (1968-1972)