List of National Natural Landmarks in Montana facts for kids

From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in Montana. There are 10 in total.

	Name	Image	Date	Location	County	Ownership	Description
1	Bug Creek Fossil Area		1966		McCone	federal (Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge)	Produced abundant remains of small, Cretaceous mammals.
2	Bridger Fossil Area		1973		Carbon	federal (Bureau of Land Management)	Contains fossils of Deinonychus antirrhopus.
3	Cloverly Formation Site		1973		Big Horn	tribal land (Crow Nation)	Contains early Cretaceous vertebrate fossils.
4	Capitol Rock		1976		Carter	federal (Custer National Forest)	A remnant of the once continuous blanket of Tertiary deposits that covered much of the Great Plains.
5	Glacial Lake Missoula		1966		Sanders	private	Contains the best examples of giant flood ripples in the North American continent.
6	Hell Creek Fossil Area		1966		Garfield	mixed- state, private	The type locality for Tyrannosaurus rex, Ankylosaurus magniventris, and Brachychampsa fontana fossils.
7	Middle Fork Canyon		1977		Gallatin	federal (Bureau of Land Management)	An outstanding example of a canyon cut across the grain of the geologic structure by a superposed stream.
8	Medicine Lake Site		1980		Sheridan	federal (Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge)	An exceptional example of the processes of continental glaciation, including till, outwash, eskers, kames, and terrace deposits.
9	Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge		1966		Beaverhead	federal	A series of relatively undisturbed, high-altitude ecosystem types representative of pre-European settlement conditions.
10	Square Butte (mountain)		1980		Chouteau	federal (Bureau of Land Management)	One of the best examples of banded magmatic rock in the United States.