Finding an hour a day this week to prep this Trilophosaurus vertebra has kept my sanity intact. #triassicpark #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
Adam Marsh
@notthatmarsh.bsky.social
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 🧪🦖
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 🧪🦖
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 🧪🦖
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. 🦖🧪
I did NOT have two new taxa from the Coelophysis Quarry in my April bingo card.
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 🧪🦖
caring for temnospondyls: big and small, old and new 🧪🦖
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
