Montana Dinosaur Trail
Montana Dinosaur Trail
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Old Trail Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
The Old Trail Museum’s Dinosaur Antechamber showcases discoveries from the Two Medicine Formation. The primary building displays a life-size Maiasaura alongside a mural of the natural environment from local artist Jim Utsler. The museum’s exhibits include Maiasaura and Einosaurus skulls, nestling, hatchling and adult Maiasaura skeletons and bones, and a Sauronitholestes skeleton cast. The museum provides visitors with hands-on education, and provides a ‘touch’ bone for children and adults to gain a deeper understanding of these giants.
Dave Trexler has worked in the field of paleontology since the early 1970's. He and his family have been heavily involved in dinosaur nesting behavior resea...
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Carter County Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Просмотров 5 тыс.5 лет назад
The Carter County Museum is Montana’s first county museum and the first to display dinosaurs found in the state of Montana. Ekalaka has been at the epicenter of dinosaur discoveries for the past 100 years, and is continuing to be a source of scientific discovery. The Lambert Room, dedicated to paleontology displays, includes exhibits of a mounted Anatotitan copei skeleton (one of only a few nea...
Museum of the Rockies | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Просмотров 17 тыс.5 лет назад
Museum of the Rockies is a Smithsonian Affiliate and recognized as one of the world’s finest research and history museums. The museum houses the most T. rex specimen anywhere in the world. Notable exhibits include the growth series of Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex, the Montana’s T. rex skeleton, the “Big Al” Allosaurus specimen, and many other one-of-a-kind dinosaur finds. Museum of the Roc...
Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Просмотров 2 тыс.5 лет назад
Located in the heart of dinosaur country, the museum features many fossils, including those of plants, invertebrates, fish, turtles, crocodiles, and a variety of Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaur species. Among the dinosaur fossils are Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Camarasaurus, a horned dinosaur called Maltaceratops, a new and as yet un-named species of raptor dinosaur, and several remarkably prese...
Phillips County Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Просмотров 9385 лет назад
The Phillips County Museum provides visitors with discoveries from the nearby Judith River Formation. Seventy-seven million years ago, this formation stood as the bank of a shallow, warm inland sea, which created the perfect habitat for dinosaurs and resulted in a rich deposit of fossils. While visiting the museum, meet “Elvis” the 33-foot-long Brachylophosaurus fossil which is one of the best ...
Blaine County Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
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The museum’s Paleontology Department has numerous exhibits with findings from the Judith River Formation. These exhibits feature hadrosaur, Gorgosaurus, and ankylosaur fossils discovered in the area. In addition, the museum displays gigantic marine reptiles, mosasaur and plesiosaur, as well as invertebrates that lived in the ancient ocean that covered this landscape 75-500 million years ago. Ju...
Montana Dinosaur Center | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.5 лет назад
Education through research is our motto! In addition to our museum - which features local discoveries like the first baby dinosaurs found in North America - we also offer public, hands-on dinosaur dig programs throughout the summer. These programs run from a half-day site tour to our two-week long Paleo Training Course. Advanced registration is required. We believe that the best way to learn so...
Frontier Gateway Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
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Frontier Gateway Museum is the official Dawson County museum, located in the heart of the Hell Creek Formation which is rich in Cretaceous fossil remains. The museum displays a full-size skeleton cast of “Margie,” the Struthiomimus found near Glendive in the early 1990s. Other fossils are from Stegoceras, Triceratops, Thescelosaurus and hadrosaurs as well as aquatic and plant fossils. Chad Knud...
H. Earl Clack Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Просмотров 9725 лет назад
The H. Earl Clack Museum offers visitors the opportunity to explore local human history, as well as the remains of ancient history that have been naturally preserved through time. The museum displays 75- million-year-old dinosaur eggs and embryos found in local exposures of the Judith River Formation. Vickie Clouse, assistant professor at Montana State University Northern, gives visitors an ins...
Depot Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
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For years, the Rudyard area has been providing dinosaur specimen for the Museum of the Rockies and other premier institutions. As of 2006, the Rudyard Dinosaur Museum opened its doors as part of the Depot Museum. The Depot’s signature display is the ‘Oldest Sorehead,’ which is a fully articulated Gryposaurus found in the area. Lila Redding of Redding Farms, gives an inside look at the Depot Mus...
Makoshika State Park | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Просмотров 10 тыс.5 лет назад
Makoshika State Park is located just southeast of Glendive. Makoshika means ‘bad land’ in Lakota, and the park’s landscape is part of the late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation. Over ten different dinosaur species have been discovered in Makoshika. Significant discoveries include a complete Triceratops horridus skull, the fossil remains of Edmontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex, and a nearly complet...
Upper Musselshell Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
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Avaceratops lammersi, named “Ava,” is the museum’s centerpiece exhibit. Ava was discovered in the Judith River Formation north of nearby Shawmut and is the first fossil of its kind to be discovered. This primary exhibit is not the only ancient fossils you will find in the museum, Ava is accompanied by a hadrosaur tibia and fibula, as well as a number of other dinosaur leg and hip bone fossils. ...
Garfield County Museum | Montana Dinosaur Trail
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Located in the Hell Creek Formation south of Fort Peck Lake, Garfield County has made major contributions to the paleontology record. In 1902 the world’s first identified Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered near Jordan. In addition to the full T. rex skull displayed at the museum you’ll find a full-size Triceratops cast and a Stygimoloch domed skull. Some call Clayton Phipps the "Dinosaur Cowboy."...
Fort Peck Interpretive Center | Montana Dinosaur Trail
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The Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Museum is a partnership between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The center's signature attraction is Peck's Rex one of the most complete T. Rex specimens to be found. Sue Dalbey, the Director of the Fort Peck Interpretive Center, gives visitors an insider look at the museum and its prehistoric displays. In addition to ...