Popular hadrosaur fossil removed from Montana state park

MISSOULA, Mont. — A popular hadrosaur fossil has been removed from a trail in a Montana state park.

The Museum of the Rockies now has the hadrosaur fossil that was a fixture alongside Diane Gabriel Trail in Makoshika State Park.

The Museum of the Rockies says the duck-billed dinosaur fossil was over a sinkhole at the park. Park officials feared erosion could send it down the sinkhole.

The fossil consists of several vertebrae in a line in a sandstone concretion, and now scientists found that part of the hipbone was behind it, but it had never been seen because it was in the rock.

The museum is to make a cast of the fossil, that Makoshika State Park will display.

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