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Big Nose Hill (ROM)

Glacier County, Montana
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About Big Nose Hill (ROM)

Big Nose Hill (ROM) is a fossil collection site in Glacier, Montana, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Willow Creek Formation, dated to the Late Maastrichtian (72.2–66 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as terrestrial indet. Documented finds include Hypsilophodontidae.

Geologic setting

Formation
Willow Creek
Geologic interval
Late Maastrichtian
Age
72.2–66 Ma
Depositional environment
terrestrial indet.
Altitude
1375 meters
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

T31N, R9W, sec 19, SW 1/4; in Two Medicine Valley, 12 mi SE of Browning, near high ridge (Big Nose Hill) dissected by a NW-trending valley

Fossils found here

Hypsilophodontidae
Ornithischia · Hypsilophodontidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 58807 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at Big Nose Hill (ROM)?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Big Nose Hill (ROM)?

Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.