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READINGS |
| Jan. 7 (Mon.) | Course Introduction | |
| Jan 8/9 | Lab 1: Lab Introduction | |
| Jan. 9 (Wed.) | The fossil
record and how it has been preserved
Environments of fossil preservation. |
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| Jan. 11 (Fri.) | Biostratigraphic and geologic concepts important to Paleontology |
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| Jan. 14 (Mon.) | Biostratigraphic and geologic concepts important to Paleontology |
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| Jan 15/16 | Lab 2: Fossilization | |
| Jan. 16 (Wed.) | Biostratigraphic-magnetostratigraphic-chemostratigraphic correlation |
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| Jan. 18 (Fri.) | Classification of major invertebrate phyla and classes (Sponges, Archaeocyathans) and Taxonomic Principles |
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| Jan. 21 (Mon.) | Martin L. King. Jr. Day |
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| Jan. 22/23 | Lab 3: Sponges, Archaeocyathans, and Cnidarians |
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| Jan. 23 (Wed.) | Classification of major invertebrate phyla and classes (Cnidarians and Bryozoans) and Taxonomic Principles |
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| Jan. 25 (Fri.) | Classification of major invertebrate phyla and classes (Arthropods) and Taxonomic Principles |
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| Jan.28 (Mon.) | Classification of major invertebrate phyla and classes (Brachiopods and Graptolites) and Taxonomic Principles |
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Jan. 29/30 |
Lab 4: Taxonomy, paleoecology, and taphonomy of the middle Miocene Hawthorn Group fauna (field trip to Rattlesnake branch of Hawthorn Creek, Gainesville | |
| Jan. 30 (Wed.) | Classification of major invertebrate phyla and classes (Molluscs) and Taxonomic Principles |
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| Feb. 1 (Fri.) | Exam 1 | |
| Feb. 4 (Mon.) | Classification of major invertebrate phyla and classes (Echinoderms) and Taxonomic Principles |
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| Feb. 5/6 | Lab 5: Brachiopods and Bryozoans |
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| Feb. 6 (Wed.) | Classification of major invertebrate phyla and classes (Echinoderms) and Taxonomic Principles | |
| Feb. 8 (Fri.) | The Vendian-Cambrian transition | |
| Feb. 11 (Mon.) | The Cambrian explosion | |
| Feb.12/13 | Lab 6: Graptolites, Echinoderms (Blastoids, Cystoids and Crinoids only), and Paleozoic Plants | |
| Feb. 13 (Wed.) | Paleozoic Invertebrate assemblages: Cambrian-Ordovician | |
| Feb. 15 (Fri.) | Paleozoic Invertebrate assemblages: Silurian-Devonian | |
| Feb. 18 (Mon.) | Paleozoic Invertebrate assemblages: Mississippian-Permian | |
| Feb. 19/20 | Lab 7: Echinoids (crinoids, blastoids, and cystoids only) | |
| Feb. 20 (Wed.) | Paleozoic Invertebrate assemblages: Mississippian-Permian | |
| Feb. 22 (Fri.) | Paleozoic Reef Communities | |
| Feb. 25 (Mon.) | What causes extinction?
Ordovician and Devonian mass extinctions |
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| Feb. 25/26 | Lab 8: Midterm | |
| Feb. 27 (Wed.) | Exam 2 | |
| Feb. 29 (Fri.) | The mother of all extinction: The Permo/Triassic extinction and recovery and the Terminal Cretaceous |
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| March 3 (Mon.) | Cephalopod evolution handouts | |
| March 4/5 | Lab 9: Arthropods amd Molluscs (cephalopods only) |
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| March 5 (Wed.) | Mesozoic invertebrate communities | |
| March 7 (Fri.) | Mesozoic invertebrate communities | |
| March 8-16 (Fri.) | Spring Break | |
| March 17 (Mon.) | Geologic introduction to our Paleozoic field trip | Field Trip Manual |
| March 18 (Tues) | Depart Tuesday or Wednesday and travel north as far as possible, probably to north Georgia or eastern Tennessee. | |
| March 19 (Weds) | Travel through Tenessee and Kentucky to Lousiville with numerous stops along the way. | |
| March 20 (Thursday) | Field work in the Ordovician-Mississippian of the Louisville area | |
| March 21 (Friday) | Rock quarry in southern Indiana and Falls of the Ohio museum | |
| March 22 (Saturday) | Another rock quarry and area geology | |
| March 23 (Sunday) | Return with a few stops in Frankfurt, Lexington, and elsewhere | |
| March 24 (Mon.) | No labs on Tuesday March | |
| March 25/26 | No class-compensation for field trip | |
| March 26 (Weds.) | No class-compensation for field trip | |
| Mar. 28 (Fri.) | Sharing field trip fossils |
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| Mar. 31 (Mon.) | Siliceous microfossils |
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| April 1/2 | Lab 10: Echinoderms (echinoids only) & Molluscs (exclusive of cephalopods) | |
| April 2 (Wed.) | Siliceous microfossils |
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| April 4 (Fri.) | Siliceous microfossils and paleoenvironment | |
| April 7 (Mon.) | Calcareous microfossils |
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| April 8/9 | Lab 11: Microfossils: calcareous nannofossils, diatoms, radiolaria, and silicoflagellates, chitinozoans, acritarchs, dinoflagellates, pollen, spores | |
| April 9 (Wed.) | Organic walled microfossils | |
| April 11 (Fri.) | Exam 3 |
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| April 14 (Mon.) | Fossils, Archaeology, Climate, and Vegetation | |
| April 15/16 | Lab 12: Microfossils: foraminifera, conodonts, ostracods, sponge spicules, etc. | |
| April 16 (Wed.) | Plate tectonics and evolution | |
| April 18 (Fri.) | Cenozoic Evolution | |
| April 21 (Mon.) | Cenozoic Evolution | |
| April 22/23 | Lab 13: Lab Final | |
| April 23 (Wed.) | Cenozoic thermal maximum
Extinctions of Pleistocene megfaunas |
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| May 2 (Fri.) | Lecture Final 7:30-9:30 AM offical time for exam. Half the class took the exam early. I would rather not start before 8AM. You may begin your exam anytime between 8 and 10 AM. | |