We can imagine the dinosaurs and how they lived by examining their skeletons and other fossils, like nests, eggs, and footprints.
Over a three-million year period, from 68 to 65 million years ago, the last Cretaceous sediments were deposited in Montana as the intercontinental seaway retreated. To the west these sediments are called the Saint Mary River For- mation, and to the east the rocks are called the Hell Creek Formation. The Hell Creek Formation produces Montana's most famous dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. Revealed here is also the period of time when di- nosaurs went extinct. The last dinosaurs to exist in Montana are on display in The Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Mu- seum in Fort Peck, the Garfield County Museum in Jordan, the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum and Makoshika State Park in Glendive, and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. By visiting the museums along Montana's Dinosaur
Trail, people are given the opportunity to travel in time through "Montana's Mesozoic Park," seeing some of the very best dinosaur remains found in the world. It's a great way to see Montana, both in the present and the past.
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