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Bob's Vacation Site

Glacier County, Montana
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About Bob's Vacation Site

Bob's Vacation Site is a fossil collection site in Glacier, Montana, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Two Medicine Formation, dated to the Late Campanian (83.6–72.2 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as floodplain. Documented finds include Piksi barbarulna, Saurornitholestes, Troodon formosus, Orodromeus makelai, Theropoda, Tyrannosauridae.

Geologic setting

Formation
Two Medicine
Geologic interval
Late Campanian
Age
83.6–72.2 Ma
Depositional environment
"floodplain"
Recorded occurrences
13
Geology notes

"only very ephemeral water... small floodplain depression, possibly a vernal pool"

Locality notes

"extent of 25 m2"\r\nno geographic details are given, so coordinate is based on county

Fossils found here

Piksi barbarulna
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Saurornitholestes
Reptilia · Dromaeosauridae
Troodon formosus
Reptilia · Troodontidae
Orodromeus makelai
Ornithischia · Thescelosauridae
Theropoda
Reptilia
Tyrannosauridae
Reptilia · Tyrannosauridae
Hadrosauridae
Ornithischia · Hadrosauridae
Squamata
Reptilia
Anura
Amphibia
Marsupialia
Mammalia
Multituberculata
Mammalia
Gastropoda
Gastropoda
Nodosauridae
Ornithischia · Nodosauridae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 25658 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at Bob's Vacation Site?

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 Bob's Vacation Site?

Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.