GEOLOGY 397

SPECIAL TOPICS: INTRODUCTION TO PALEONTOLOGY

FALL SEMESTER 2000



SYLLABUS: Geol. 397 - ST: Introduction to Paleontology


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