Glendive Montana Trip #2
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Glendive, Montana Road Trip #2
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Part 2: Badlands Of Eastern Montana
© W.P. Armstrong 22 September 2011

Table Of Contents

  1. Montana Hwy 200 Between Glendive & Great Falls
  2. Assorted Fragments From East Montana Badlands
  3. Two Medicine Dinosaur Center At Bynum, Montana
  4. Cottonwood, Grasshopper & Spider Resembing Tick
  5. Orange Caloplaca Lichen In The Glendive Badlands
  6. Gray foliose Lichen & Winchester 270 Cartridge

1. Montana Hwy 200 Between Glendive & Great Falls

A large banded argiope (Argiope trifasciata) photographed at a roadside rest stop.


2. Assorted Fragments From East Montana Badlands

Assorted rock fragments, lignite and petrified wood from the eastern Montana badlands near Glendive. Some of the pieces might be bone. The Spinifructus antiquus was formerly identified as Ficus ceratops. It may be the endocarp of an extinct palm. The specimen with question mark is unknown. It is about the size and shape of a tropical fig syconium, but I don't want to make another premature guess on its identity. It might not even be a permineralized fossil.


3. Two Medicine Dinosaur Center At Bynum, Montana
Cast of Seismosaurus, One of the Largest Dinosaurs & Definitely the Longest

Above Images Courtesy Of Wikipedia Commons

A cast of the enormous skeleton of Seismosaurus (Diplodocus), the longest dinosaur ever recorded. It is as tall as a two-story house and over 140 feet long, difficult to adequately frame in a camera. Some estimates for its living weight are 90 tons. Since its bones were hollow like a bird it may have weighed less. It roamed areas of North America during the late Jurrasic, about 150 million years ago.

  Two Medicine Dinosaur Center At Bynum, Montana  


4. Cottonwood, Grasshopper & Crab Spider Resembling A Tick

One of the many grasshoppers seen in the Montana grasslands in fall 2011.

Throughout Montana in September 2011 this grasshopper species had a population explosion.

At first glance I thought this tiny crab spider on my hand was a tick.


5. Orange Caloplaca Lichen In The Glendive Badlands


6. Gray Foliose Soil Lichen In The Glendive Badlands

Gray foliose lichen. The nearby unspent Winchester 270 cartridge was used as a size relationship.