West Virginia University at Parkersburg
Geology 307 - Paleobiology of Dinosaurs
Spring 2006
LECTURES (These lectures are
meant to be 2 hours and 45 minutes each, with at least one ten minute break)
LECTURE 1 - DIGGING
UP BONES
LECTURES
2 AND 3 - THE TIME WHEN DINOSAURS LIVED - THE MESOZOIC ERA AND BASIC PRINCIPLES
OF STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY
LECTURE
4A - FOSSILS AND SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS
LECTURE 4A - FOSSILS AND SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS (POWER POINT)
LECTURE 4B - PHYLOGENY
LECTURE
5 - THE ORIGIN OF VERTEBRATES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS
LECTURE
6 - ORIGIN OF DINOSAURIA
LECTURE
7 - STEGOSAURIA AND ANKYLOSAURIA
LECTURE 8
- BONEHEADS
LECTURE
9 - THE HORNED DINOSAURS
LECTURE
10 - ORNITHOPODS
LECTURE
11 - SAUROPODOMORPHA
LECTURE
12 - THE MEAT EATERS
LECTURE
13 - THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS
LECTURE
14 - DINOSAUR EXTINCTION