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The Gray Fossil Site is a Miocene-epoch assemblage of fossils located near the unincorporated town of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee. It was discovered in May 2000 in the course of a project to widen State Route 75 near its intersection with Interstate 26. The site was originally a semi-circular sinkhole that harbored a pond environment and has yielded remains of the ancient plants and animals that lived or watered there. Among the vertebrate fossils found at the site are the those of frogs, turtles and tapirs. The site has also yielded the most complete skeleton of Teleoceras, an ancient rhinoceros, yet found in eastern North America and the tooth of a red panda that marks only the second record of this animal in North America. State Route 75 was realigned to protect the site, and East Tennessee State University is building a museum at the site that is expected to open in 2007.
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