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PALEONTOLOGY
GLY 3603C, Section 1808, 2010, and Section 3840
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Laboratory Information
COURSE
INFORMATION
Instructors
- Instructor: Dr. Paul F. Ciesielski
- Lab Instructor: Cathy
Class Hours and Location
- Lecture: M,W, F; 3rd Period,
Room 202, Williamson Hall
- Lab: Section 3840, Wednesday,
5th and 6th Periods, Room 215, Williamson Hall
- Lab: Section 1808, Monday, 5th
and 6th Periods, Room 215, Williamson Hall
- Lab: Section 2011, Tuesday 4th
and 5th Periods, Room 215, Williamson Hall
Office Hours
- Dr. Ciesielski-
M,W, F 4th Period; Room 255 Williamson Hall
- Teaching Assistant- TBA
Williamson Hall
Communication
phone: 846-1725
email:
pciesiel@geology.ufl.edu
email:
Grading
- Lecture: 3 hourly exams and a
final. Each of these 4 exams accounts for 15% of the total course grade,
together as 60% of the course grade.
- Lab and Field Work: Accounts
for 40% of the course grade. Field trips are required and are10% of your
course grade. A breakdown of the grading of field work and lab activities
will be given to you by the T.A.
Attendance
- Required
- Field trips are required
and can only be missed by an excused absence. Missing the Kentucky field
trip will result in a letter grade deduction.
Book
- Bringing Fossils to Life, by
Donald Prothero, McGraw Hill (ISBN
0-07-366170-8)
Course Objectives
Major objectives of the course are to
acquaint you with:
1. how to
identify major fossil groups in the field
2.
paleontologic field methods
and lab techniques
3.
taxonomic principles
4.
biostratigraphic concepts
and tools
5.
temporal changes in fossils assemblages that will give
you the capability of determining the ages of rocks and sediments.
6.
methods of interpreting paleoenvironments
using fossil assemblages, and
7.
patterns of evolution.