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Adam Marsh

@notthatmarsh.bsky.social
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Lead Paleontologist at Petrified Forest National Park, Crohn’s survivor, PhD, recovering Hoosier, Arby's enthusiast. Personal account, opinions are my own.

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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
pub date is in the future but PDF is available! Congrats to @VTechmeetsPaleo undergrad Denycè on a great pub!!🦈🧪🦖 bioone.org/journals/pal...
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Shark on Fire
Alt: Shark on Fire
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Too remote to get chilis but still want to donate to an incredible cause? The 37th year of the world’s oldest entirely FREE science festival is just around the corner! If you donate you will receive a FREE drawing of a chili pepper from ME! scifest.charityproud.org/Donate
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The museum seasonal and I have managed to keep things cordial this summer. #bonewars #triassicpark #fossilfriday 🧪🦖
A collections access log with the names Marsh and Cope
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Finding an hour a day this week to prep this Trilophosaurus vertebra has kept my sanity intact. #triassicpark #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
Small brown fossil neck bone in gray siltstone
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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 🧪🦖
white plaster jacket with long rodwhite plaster jacket with cow bone
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Pepper’s school picture day!
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
anyone want a quiz? who did this belong to?
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
top jacket on a smallish phytosaur mandible #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
White plaster bandages over a v-shaped lower jaw bone in the badlands
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“fight me/celium”
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
happy Free Slurpee Day to all who celebrate
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
sometimes life just puts a phytosaur foot in your trench, you dig? #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
1” paintbrush next to three brown fossil toe bones
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
LongDog returns #PepperTime
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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 🧪🦖
My hand holding a long white gray shin bone
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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.
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I won’t apologize for being the guy who splits the discarded bone layer to find the tiny fish and reptile jaws. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
Hand holding a gray rock with a small fossil circled in penSmall jaw with five teeth magnified
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
you’re always a short wander away from amazing things at Petrified Forest National Park
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
published now in PEFO's peer-reviewed journal Lithodendron! Postosuchus Supernova #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🦖🧪 petrifiedforestfieldinstitute.org/lithodendron...
outline of a reptile skull showing where the collected fossils come from
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
did anyone else put their backpack down right next to a 200,000,000 year old fish jaw today?
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
the node representing the population of the most recent common ancestor of Sauria is right here in Holbrook, AZ 🧪🦖
two street signs: Buzzard Blvd and Lizard Ln
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
spending Sunday morning with these ladies
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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 🦖🧪
A hand holding a gray 3D printed reptile skullA hand holding a small jaw with brown leaf shaped teeth Museum cabinet drawer will foam and secured fossilsPainter Desert landscape from which Revueltosaurus specimens were collected
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
~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 🧪🦖
a screwdriver stuck into a pebbly hillsidescrewdriver in place showing a small portion of yellow boneSelfie with two rangers in green hats1” wide paint brush next to femur in purple
Mudstone with green line outline
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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 🦖🧪
A brown square of fossil bone next to a pen
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
stopped by to see the newly remodeled NMMNHS in Albuquerque and WOW! The new Paleozoic exhibit is fantastic. Dinosaur for #fossilfriday tax. 🦖🧪
Selfie under the head of a tyrannosaur sculpture
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our new museum seasonal and I are going to have fun with this. #bonewars #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
sign in sheet with Cope and Marsh written on the lines
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I did NOT have two new taxa from the Coelophysis Quarry in my April bingo card.
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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 🧪🦖
irregular shapes of fossilized poops
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
caring for temnospondyls: big and small, old and new 🧪🦖
holding a black and yellow salamander holding a black and yellow salamander
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
the Eye of Sauron watching us survey for endangered cacti. #fossilfriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
red circle of petrified wood with a black rim and central line
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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 🦖🧪
selfie in front of a welcome sign for Mountainair, NMBack end of a reptile-like reptile fossil
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
the densest object in the Known Universe is the head of a dog begging to share her dad’s dinner #peppertime
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Chinle Formation - come for the climbing ripples, stay for the reptile footprints. #FossilFriday #triassicpark 🧪🦖
A blue pick axe next to a brown slab of rock with long ripplesA small footprint and handprint of a little reptile preserved in rock
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Pepper is rightfully wondering why Marasuchus and Tanystropheus are in a scene together #theDinosaurs
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Can I offer you a nice Desmatosuchus fragment in these trying times? #fossilfriday #triassicpark #alwayssunny 🦖🧪
A hand holding a rectangular brown fragment of a bony piece of armor
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Gutted to lose a friend and colleague, Dr. Hans Sues. I spent the afternoon in one of his happy places- The Triassic. 🍻 Trias über alles.
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I wish I could repost from that other site.
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
who ordered the rocks on rye? #FossilFriday 🦖🧪
a split rock with other stones between the two pieces
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
brandi carlile is a NATIONAL TREASURE
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
@timdemko.xyz did you see your shadow this morning?
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
throwback #fossilfriday to the “Gumby” phytosaur site: 2013 v 2026. 🧪🦖
a before and after photo showing a dry wash and badlands
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
poor Placerias can’t get no respect
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Met with a local landowner this week to organize & outline a manuscript describing the INCREDIBLE variation of Triassic reptile teeth she has been collecting and curating from her property, will be accessioned at @NMMNHS. Check out those compound denticles! #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
a magnified picture of a small triangular tooth with large denticles on the back side
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I think I have a parasite #peppertime
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
imagine my HORROR that we’ve been misrepresenting the Norian/Rhaetian boundary in our home.
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Fun day in the Lower Triassic with @timdemko.xyz and others!
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Pepper LOVES this whole shutdown=daddy’s home thing
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
a pretty skull of the phytosaur Redondasaurus collected from the Navajo Nation and housed at @museumofnaz, on loan to PEFO #FossilFriday 🦖🧪
A gray white reptile skull in a black sand table
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
shut down
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
raise your hand if you’ve been raptured today
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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Y’all remember when “binders full of women” was a scandal? How quaint.
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