Adam Marsh
@notthatmarsh
Lead Paleontologist at Petrified Forest National Park, Crohn’s survivor, PhD, recovering Hoosier, Arby's enthusiast. Personal account, opinions are my own.
Sometimes you have to improvise structural support in a field jacket. Here I used a gauge from a broken weather station and a cow radioulna. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
top jacket on a smallish phytosaur mandible #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
sometimes life just puts a phytosaur foot in your trench, you dig? #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
wandered off from the quarry yesterday just to find a pelvis and hindlimb of a phytosaur waiting for its turn. Here is the tibia. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
prep is going well on this femur, it’s more smashed than at first thought but hey, in the Chinle a dinosaur is a dinosaur. #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
Back in the funhouse with a #CrohnsDisease flare, handling with gust rest, IV fluids, and steroids. Reminder to drink water, manage stress, avoid trigger foods, and be mindful of folks who may be battling “invisible” illnesses.
I won’t apologize for being the guy who splits the discarded bone layer to find the tiny fish and reptile jaws. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
you’re always a short wander away from amazing things at Petrified Forest National Park
published now in PEFO's peer-reviewed journal Lithodendron! Postosuchus Supernova #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🦖🧪 petrifiedforestfieldinstitute.org/lithodendron...
did anyone else put their backpack down right next to a 200,000,000 year old fish jaw today?
the node representing the population of the most recent common ancestor of Sauria is right here in Holbrook, AZ 🧪🦖
You’ll have to be more specific, because it’s still an ornithischian in the older volume ;)
Printed a Revueltosaurus skull for some outreach this week. Once thought to be an early dinosaur, this friend is actually more closely related to crocs. Specimens from Petrified Forest NP were the first to determine this important discovery. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🦖🧪
~2018 I checked a waterline trench for fossils in PEFO’s backcountry and noticed a bone layer that I marked with a screwdriver. Yesterday I revisited the site and found my screwdriver, where I had nearly unknowingly nailed an in-situ dinosaur femur! #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
Sometimes all you need is a small fragment of a fossil for an ID. This Desmatosuchus osteoderm preserves the anterior lamina and rough lateral margin unique to the aetosaur taxon. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🦖🧪
stopped by to see the newly remodeled NMMNHS in Albuquerque and WOW! The new Paleozoic exhibit is fantastic. Dinosaur for #fossilfriday tax. 🦖🧪
Our new museum seasonal and I are going to have fun with this. #bonewars #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
I have the privilege of getting a routine colonoscopy next week for my #crohns so here’s a pile of #triassic coprolites from Petrified Forest. #fossilfriday #splashdown 🧪🦖
the Eye of Sauron watching us survey for endangered cacti. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
Excited to celebrate Salinas Pueblo Missions NM and their remarkable synapsid fossil tomorrow! Meet me at 11 at the Manzano Mountain Art Council for a talk on your cousins, the synapsids! #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
the densest object in the Known Universe is the head of a dog begging to share her dad’s dinner #peppertime
The Chinle Formation - come for the climbing ripples, stay for the reptile footprints. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
Pepper is rightfully wondering why Marasuchus and Tanystropheus are in a scene together #theDinosaurs
Can I offer you a nice Desmatosuchus fragment in these trying times? #fossilfriday #triassicpark #alwayssunny 🦖🧪