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Liscomb Quarry

The first discovery of dinosaur bones from Alaska was in 1961 by a Shell Oil Company geologist named Robert Liscomb. Unfortunately, Liscomb was killed the following year in a rockslide, and his collections and notes sat unstudied in the Shell archives for many years. The richest dinosaur quarry in all of Alaska is the one that Robert Liscomb originally found and is now known as the Liscomb Quarry, named in his honor.

The Liscomb Quarry has produced several thousand bones - the remains of dozens of dinosaurs. Almost all of these are the bones of young duck-billed dinosaurs. These bones are but a small sample of the thousands of fossil bones recovered from the quarry. Since they are all upper left arm bones, they represent three different individual animals. To date, dozens of upper arm bones recovered from the Liscomb Quarry.

Juvenile hadrosaur tibia from the Liscomb Quarry, Alaska


Left humeri, or upper arm bones, of juvenile hadrosaurs from the Liscomb Quarry