Lecture: M,W, F; 3rd Period, Room 202,
Williamson
Hall
Lab: Section 4373, Wednesday, 5th and 6th
Periods,
Room 215,
Williamson Hall
Lab: Section xxxx, Tuesday, 4th and 5th
Periods,
Room 215,
Williamson Hall
Office Hours
Dr. Ciesielski- M,W, 4th-5th
Period; Room
255
Williamson
Hall
Teaching Assistant- TBA Williamson Hall
Communication
Dr. Ciesielski
phone: 846-1725
email: pciesiel@geology.ufl.edu
T.A.: TBA
email:
Grading
Lecture: 3 hourly exams and a final. Each of
these
4 exams
accounts for 17.5% 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. 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.
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.
