The Gray Fossil Site was discovered in May, 2000 during road construction in Washington County near the community of Gray, Tennessee . The deposit is located in the southern Appalachian Mountains of east Tennessee, and provides a rare opportunity to study the paleoecology of southern Appalachia.

This skeleton is a mounted specimen of Teleoceras at the Smithsonian.

Crews spent roughly 9 weeks working on our rhino skeleton. Currently, every bone has been recovered except for a single hoof core! We even have the sternabrae.

 Tedford and Gustafson (1977) reported the first occurrence of the Red (lesser) Panda from the 3-4Ma (early Blancan) Taunton Local Fauna of the Ringold Formation in Washington State based on an upper right first molar (RM1). A recent discovery of that same tooth (RM1) from the 4.5-7Ma (late Miocene - early Pliocene) Gray Fossil Site of eastern Tennessee marks only the second record of this animal in North America.