Mr. Murphy

Tim Murphy's father knows hardly anything about dinosaurs. He is mentioned a few times in the Jurassic Park novel.

In perhaps his most notable appearance, Tim's family went to an unspecified Natural History Museum. Tim's father made several incorrect statements about a Camptosaurus skeleton, with Tim constantly correcting him. Then his father noticed Tim concentrating on a T-rex skeleton and asked why he was looking at it for so long. Tim was counting the vertebrae, because he believed it had the wrong amount. Stunned by how the museum could have a skeleton that was wrong, his father stomped off towards a security guard to ask. He came back, having been told that the dinosaur was wrong, and said to Tim that "you really do have dinosaurs on the brain." Then they left to see the rest of the Mets game on TV, much to Tim's displeasure and his younger sister Lex's enjoyment. Tim told about this event to Alan Grant.

At the time of the Jurassic Park incident, his father was divorcing from his mother.