For more than 40 years, an area of Cretaceous rock exposures in northwest Montana has been the site of exciting fossil discoveries, including ones by paleontologists from Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies. Now, it has been named an International Geoheritage Site.
The designation identifies such sites “as being of the highest scientific value. They are sites that served to develop the science of geology, particularly its early history,” according to the International Commission on Geoheritage.
New dinosaur species discovered in Montana
The science organization awarded the designation to the “Cretaceous Dinosaur Nesting Grounds of the Willow Creek Anticline” at its international congress over the summer in South Korea.
“Fossils unearthed at the Willow Creek Anticline helped change the way people think about dinosaurs,” said John Scannella, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies . “These discoveries have shaped our view of what dinosaurs were like as living animals.”…