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• Instructor: Dr. Paul F. Ciesielski
• Lab Instructor: Julie Mathis

• Lecture: M,W, F; 3rd Period, Room 202, Williamson Hall
• Lab: Section 3640, Tuesday, 4th and 5th Periods, Room 215, Williamson Hall
• Lab: Section 1808, Monday, 5th and 6th Periods, Room 215, Williamson Hall

• Dr. Ciesielski- M,W, F  4th Period; Room 255 Williamson Hall
• Teaching Assistant- TBA Williamson Hall

• Dr. Ciesielski

phone: 846-1725
email: pciesiel@geology.ufl.edu
• T.A.: TBA

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• 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.

• 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.

• Bringing Fossils to Life, by Donald Prothero, McGraw Hill  (ISBN 0-07-366170-8)

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.