In the late 1970s, Montana couple John and Marion Branvold operated a rock shop in Bynum, Montana. While not running this operation, they often explored the area for fossils. One place they searched was a ranch owned by the Peebles family near Choteau. During one fossil-hunting trip here, Marion collected several small bones on a four-foot-wide knob of land.
Meanwhile, Jack Horner, a native of Shelby, Montana was working as a fossil preparator at Princeton University. For his four-week vacation in 1978 he decided to go back to his home state and search for dinosaur fossils with longtime friend and high school teacher Bob Makela.
Jack Horner and the Discovery of Dinosaurs in Conjunction with Nests and Eggs
During their travels around Montana searching for fossils, Horner and Makela stopped by the Branvold rock shop. They met Marion and identified several fossils on display, prompting Marion to go home and bring back more specimens. After Horner and Makela identified the bones as those from a baby duck-billed dinosaur, Branvold took the fossil hunters into her home and showed them the specimens from Choteau, which Horner also identified as fossil dinosaurs.
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