GEOLOGY 397
SPECIAL TOPICS: INTRODUCTION TO PALEONTOLOGY
FALL SEMESTER 2000
SCHEDULE: Lecture
and Lab
LECTURES:
Lecture
1. Introduction to Paleontology and the Fossil Record -
Chapter 1 in Prothero text.
Lecture
2. Fossil Variation - Chapter 2 in Prothero text.
Lecture
3. Speciation - Chapter 3 in Prothero text.
Lecture
4. Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Evolution, and Diversity (i.e., Systematics)
- Chapter 4 in
Prothero text
LABS:
Lab
1: Micoropaleontology - Chapter 11 in Prothero text.
Lab
3: Field Trip to Mountwood Park - Pennsylvanian Brachiopods.
LINKS:
Geol 3604: Paleontology
, at Virginia Tech
GLY
1000 - Extraordinary Espisodes in Earth History , at the University
of Florida
Geoscience
PS 1600 Syllabus -- The Fossil Record , at Weber State University
Trilobite
homepage , at the University of Alberta
BSHOME97
, Burgess Shale Sampler at the Smithsonian Institute
Burgess
Shale fossils , by Dr. Andrew McRae at the Univ. of Calgary
Oceans of Kansas Paleontology
The
Prehistoric Times , an amateur dinosaur magazine
Biology
404 - Evolution - Professor Eernisse at Calfornia St. Univ.- Fullerton
SEPM-PALAIOS
Home Page , an international journal of paleobiology
Kentucky
State Parks: Big Bone Lick State Park
Darwin
and Evolution Overview
Paleobiology
, a quarterly journal of The Paleontological Society
The Evolution
Journal , international journal of organic evolution
UCMP Home Page ,
Univ. of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Kentucky Geological
Survey
Indiana
Geology Today - Frames , Paleontology
WVGES
Mini-Museum Welcome Page , at West Virginia Geological and Economic
Survey site
OHIO
TRILOBITES , at Ohio Geological Survey site
GEOL
3330: Principles of Paleobiology at the Univ. of Houston
Geobiology
at Virginia Tech
Paleobiology
, at the Univ. of Arkansas, Littlerock
paleobio.htm
, Paleobiology at Cornell
Punctuated
Equilibrium at Twenty , by Donald Prothero
Geology
3 Home Page , History of Life and the Univ. of Calif. - Davis