List of National Natural Landmarks in Montana explained

There are National Natural Landmarks in Montana.

NameImageDateLocationCountyOwnership Description
federal (Bureau of Land Management) Contains fossils of Deinonychus antirrhopus.
47.683°N -106.2192°Wfederal (Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge) Produced abundant remains of small, Cretaceous mammals.
45.5958°N -104.1201°Wfederal (Custer National Forest) A remnant of the once continuous blanket of Tertiary deposits that covered much of the Great Plains.
tribal land (Crow Nation) Contains early Cretaceous vertebrate fossils.
46.9389°N -114.1436°WprivateContains the best examples of giant flood ripples in the North American continent.
46.15°N -107.48°WSeveralmixed- state, privateThe type locality for Tyrannosaurus rex, Ankylosaurus magniventris, and Brachychampsa fontana fossils.
48.4681°N -104.3817°Wfederal (Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge) An exceptional example of the processes of continental glaciation, including till, outwash, eskers, kames, and terrace deposits.
46.1317°N -111.1098°Wfederal (Bureau of Land Management) An outstanding example of a canyon cut across the grain of the geologic structure by a superposed stream.
44.6303°N -111.7814°Wfederal A series of relatively undisturbed, high-altitude ecosystem types representative of pre-European settlement conditions.
47.4765°N -110.242°Wfederal (Bureau of Land Management) One of the best examples of banded magmatic rock in the United States.

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