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COURSE SYLLABUS: GEOL101--PREHISTORIC LIFE |
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Fall Semester, 2004 |
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SC3231; 9:00-10:15 TR |
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Instructor: Norman R. King; SC3216; 464-1794; nking@usi.edu |
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8/31 |
Course objectives & policies;
Video: Search for the Thunder Lizards |
Ch. 1 |
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9/2 |
Fossils & fossilization |
Ch. 2 |
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9/7 |
Sediments & rocks |
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9/9 |
Fossil collecting |
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9/14 |
Taxonomy; geologic time & dating
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Ch. 3 |
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9/16 |
Evolution |
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9/21 |
Phylogeny & cladistics; the
prehistoric world |
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9/23 |
Pre-reptilian vertebrates; amniotes |
Ch. 5 |
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9/28 |
Reptilian skull types; anapsids |
Ch. 6 |
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9/30 |
Exam I |
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10/5 |
Introduction to
diapsids--Lepidosaurs |
Ch. 7 |
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10/7 |
Non-dinosaurian archosaurs
(thecodonts, crocodilians) pterosaurs |
Ch. 8 |
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10/12 |
Non-dinosaurian archosaurs
(pterosaurs) |
Ch. 8 |
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10/14 |
Introduction to dinosaurs |
Ch. 9 |
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10/19 |
Intro. to dinosaurs (cont’d.); Video:
The Nature of the Breast |
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10/21 |
Saurischians (Part 1. Theropods); |
Ch. 10 |
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10/26 |
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10/28 |
Exam II |
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11/2 |
Saurischians (Part 2. Sauropodomorphs) |
Ch. 11 |
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11/4 |
Saurischians (Part 2. cont'd.) |
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11/9 |
NO
CLASS—Assessment Day |
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11/11 |
NO CLASS—GSA meeting |
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11/16 |
Ornithischians (Part 1.
Fabrosaurs & Thyreophorans) |
Ch. 12 |
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11/18 |
Ornithischians (Part 2. Cerapods) |
Ch. 13 |
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11/23 |
Ornithischians (Part 2—cont’d.) |
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11/25 |
NO CLASS—Thanksgiving Recess |
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11/30 |
Exam III |
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12/2 |
Birds; dinosaur discovery report due |
Ch. 14 |
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12/7 |
Marine reptiles; extinction |
Ch. 15,16 |
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12/9 |
Extinction; Video: The Miracle Planet |
Ch. 16 |
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12/14 |
FINAL
EXAM-same time, same place as class |
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Text: |
King, Norman R., Paleontology of Higher Vertebrates: A Practical Guide: Kendall/Hunt, 1998 (Revised Printing, 2000; student paket). |
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