Adam Marsh
Lead Paleontologist at Petrified Forest National Park, Crohn’s survivor, PhD, recovering Hoosier, Arby's enthusiast. Personal account, opinions are my own.
- @timdemko.xyz did you see your shadow this morning?
- throwback #fossilfriday to the “Gumby” phytosaur site: 2013 v 2026. 🧪🦖
- poor Placerias can’t get no respect
- 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 🦖🧪
- I think I have a parasite #peppertime
- imagine my HORROR that we’ve been misrepresenting the Norian/Rhaetian boundary in our home.
- Fun day in the Lower Triassic with @timdemko.xyz and others!
- Pepper LOVES this whole shutdown=daddy’s home thing
- a pretty skull of the phytosaur Redondasaurus collected from the Navajo Nation and housed at @museumofnaz, on loan to PEFO #FossilFriday 🦖🧪
- shut down
- raise your hand if you’ve been raptured today
- Y’all remember when “binders full of women” was a scandal? How quaint.
- the great Ned Colbert’s bicycle parked in the prep lab at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff #fossilfriday 🧪🦖
- When you come across an old friend… #fossilfriday #dilophosaurus 🦖🧪
- Tootsie-wootsies of Coelophysis from Ghost Ranch housed at the Museum of Northern Arizona. #FossilFriday #feetpics 🦖🧪
- Proximal end of a shuvosaurid I found at Petrified Forest NP yesterday #FossilFriday 🦖🧪
- sorry we only have right-legged chicken
- how funny would it be if #Ozzy rises from the dead in three days because he’s actually been Jesus this whole time
- This week I found a Chindesaurus femur head that attaches to a specimen collected 21 years ago… #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
- Repping George Clinton digging up some funky fossils 🛸 #pfunk
- #fossilfriday brings you an associated rauisuchid skull from Petrified Forest National Park. #triassicpark 🧪🦖
- One fish Two fish Lungfish Blue fish #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
- Celebrating the grand opening of the newest Arby’s in Winslow, AZ. Dressed for the occasion.
- I’ve solved the problem of never having a scale bar on hand #FossilFriday #tattoo 🧪🦖
- Reposted by Adam Marsh[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- A nice little Zamites leaf from a sandstone capping the Chinle Fm near St Johns, AZ. Is it Triassic or Cretaceous like it’s mapped? 🤔 #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
- damn… losing Sly and Wilson in the same week? CIRCLE THE WAGONS AROUND WILLIE!!
- Now that seasonal help has arrived, field season has begun in earnest at Petrified Forest. Today we trenched a phytosaur skull and mandibles that have that spent the winter under a tarp. #fossilfriday 🦖🧪
- if you’re surprised by Springsteen’s politics then you’ve never actually listened to the lyrics
- Congrats to the newly minted Dr. Reyes who helped excavate this specimen as an intern and wrote it up for a dissertation chapter and now open access pub in the Journal of Paleontology. #fossilfriday 🧪🦖
- Briefly played an archeologist today at Petrified Forest.
