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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

as you know, finding a wooden stick is not a trivial task in the backcountry at PEFO

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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 🧪🦖

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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 · 02/08/2026

great guess! this is from a prairie dog

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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 · 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 · 26/06/2026

btw those specimens were collected under Smithsonian and PEFO permits.

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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 · 20/06/2026

‪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 🦖🧪

plastic cast of a chindesaurus femur next to a real fossil dinosaur leg bone

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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Thanks to all for kind words and support. Pain and swelling is down, yesterday’s evening CT still showed narrowing 9-yr old surgery site, NG tube staying in and prepping for colonoscopy tomorrow to compare w/ what they saw two months ago. Great news is I drank broth for first food since Tuesday.

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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I prefer the upper row but you could put the top and bottom views stacked on the far right.

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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 pen

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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

You’ll have to be more specific, because it’s still an ornithischian in the older volume ;)

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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 skull

A hand holding a small jaw with brown leaf shaped teeth

Museum cabinet drawer will foam and secured fossils

Painter 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 hillside

screwdriver in place showing a small portion of yellow bone

1” 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 · 30/04/2026

I have the FULL run but not the backdrop

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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

to be fair, I reviewed the saurischian paper but didn’t know its status and the croc came out of left field

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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 🧪🦖

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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

caring for temnospondyls: big and small, old and new 🧪🦖

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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, NM

Back end of a reptile-like reptile fossil

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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

mine is hitting right AS I go through a high-stress time… fun

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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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