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Paleontology

Seventy-five million years ago Carter County was the home of many various species of dinosaurs and their contemporaries living in and along the marshes that bordered the retreating Pierre Sea, which covered much of Eastern Montana. Today, their remains are being retrieved from the shale and sands where they were entombed.

This partially exposed skull embedded in rock of a Triceratops horridus (three horns) was discovered approximately 20 miles northwest of Baker, Montana, in the 1930's by Coleman Krokker, Baker, Montana. Thanks to Mr. Krokkers discovery and donation to the Museum now this extraordinary specimen is available for others to enjoy.

Text Box: Named in honor of lifetime Carter County resident, Museum Patron & Director Mr. Marshall Lambert, in appreciation for his years of dedication and many contributions to the growth & success of the Carter County Museum and it's Paleontological Department. Mr. Lambert served as Museum Director from 1946 - 1996.

One of only three known Denversaurus Schlessmani, Nodosaur - "Armored Dinosaurs", found to date in the lower part of the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana.

This recently named armored dinosaur was located Southwest of Ekalaka.

Discovered & prepared by Jared Hudson, of "In The Beginning Fossils", Custer, S.D. Mounted, restored and cast buy the Black Hills Institute, Hill City, S.D., this skull cast was donated to the Carter County Museum by Jared Hudson, Chris Ott, Peter Larson & the Black Hills Institute.

These Dinosaur Eggs & shell fragments are casts of a cache of eggs discovered in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, 1923-25. The nest, containing 15 eggs, belonged to a small hornless member of the Cereatopisians known as Protoceratops andrewsi. They were donated to the Carter County Museum by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1941.

Among the Paleontological finds housed within the Lambert Room of the Carter County Museum is a mounted skeleton of the rare Anatotitan copei. There are perhaps only five known specimens found in the United States to date and only a few of these are as complete as the one shown above. This giant "duck-billed" Hadrosaur lived in the Marshlands of Eastern Montana 75 million years ago.

The skeleton of this Adocis, a late Cretaceous Period Turtle, discovered in the Hell Creek Formation approximately 30 miles from Ekalaka was discovered, collected and donated by Marshall & Brice Lambert, 1960.

To contact us:

Carter County Museum

306 N. Main Street

Ekalaka, Montana 59324-0445

Phone: (406) 7756886