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

Holbrook, AZ
Joined April 2009
We're just a biological speculation Sittin' here, vibratin' And we don't know what we're vibratin' about And the animal instinct in me Makes me wanna defend me It makes me want to live when it's time to die
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Replying to @TomHoltzPaleo
any chance you could email it to me? I reviewed it 2x but don’t have access…
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pub date is in the future but PDF is available! Congrats to @VTechmeetsPaleo undergrad Denycè on a great pub!!🦈 bioone.org/journals/palaeodi…
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The museum seasonal and I have managed to keep things cordial this summer. #bonewars #triassicpark #fossilfriday
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sometimes you just need to flee into the woods
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Finding an hour a day this week to prep this Trilophosaurus vertebra has kept my sanity intact. #triassicpark #fossilfriday
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As long as you avoid generic names, rauisuchids and coelophysoids co-occur in many localities at different times in the Late Triassic
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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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Pepper’s school picture day!
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Replying to @DurrantKameron
based on my location, which species? (terrible way to ID btw)
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Replying to @JenLRossman
based on my location, which species? (terrible way to ID btw)
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anyone want a quiz? who did this belong to?
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top jacket on a smallish phytosaur mandible #fossilfriday #triassicpark
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“fight me/celium”
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happy Free Slurpee Day to all who celebrate
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sometimes life just puts a phytosaur foot in your trench, you dig? #fossilfriday
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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
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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
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