Tentative Schedule and Reading Assginments

Paleontology, Spring 2001

The links under "topic" are notes from the class session from material generated by the class. The links under "Readings and Notes" provide notes for student use while reading the material. They include pre-class assignments to help students prepare for classroom activities.

Date	Topic	Readings and Notes
Jan. 22	Introduction
Jan. 24	Biases and Taphonomy	Raup and Stanley ch. 1; Schafer (1972) p. 32-38
Jan. 26	Taphonomy and Preservation	Clarkson ch. 1; Parsons and Brett (1991)
Jan. 29	Ontogeny	Raup and Stanely ch. 3
Jan. 31	Protists (1)	Brasier p. 21-50, 80-121
Feb. 2	Protists (2)
Feb. 5	Populations	Raup and Stanley ch. 4
Feb. 7	Porifera (1)	Clarkson ch. 4
Feb. 9	Porifera (2)
Feb. 12	Species	Raup and Stanley ch. 5; Clarkson p. 26-38
Feb. 14	Corals (1)	Clarkson ch. 5
Feb. 16	Corals (2)
Feb. 19	Huxley's Data Analysis
Feb. 21	Bryozoans (1)	Clarkson ch. 6
Feb. 23	Bryozoans (2)
Feb. 26	Huxley Exer. (cont.)
Feb. 28	Brachiopods (1)	Clarkson ch. 7
March 2	Brachiopods (2)	Zeigler (1965)
March 5	Huxley Exer. (cont.)
March 7	Biostratigraphy and Classification	Raup and Stanley ch. 9; Clarkson p. 20-23; Raup and Stanley ch. 6; Prothero p. 46-52
March 9	NO CLASS
March 12	Functional Morphology	Raup and Stanley ch. 8; Huxley Project due
March 14	Autoecology Project
March 16	Paleoecology 1; Learning Reflection discussion	Raup and Stanley ch. 10; Clarskon p. 13-17
March 26	Paleoecology 2	Crame (1990); Austich and Bottjer (1991); Learning Reflection #1 due
March 28	Bivalves (1)	Clarkson p. 197-222
March 30	Bivalves (2)
April 2	Paleoecology 3	Bambach (1984); Autoecology Project due
April 4	Gastropods and Cephalopods (1)	Clarkson p. 222-256
April 6	Gastropods and Cephalopods (2)
April 9	Community Structure Project
April 11	Project (cont.)
April 13	Echinoderms (1)	Clarkson ch. 9
April 16	Echinoderms (2)
April 18	Evolution: Models	Clarkson p. 38-51
April 20	Arthropods (1)	Clarkson ch. 11: Brasier p. 122-146
April 23	Arthropods (2)
April 25	Evolution: Trends	Raup and Stanley ch. 11
April 27	Extinction and poster preparation	Prothero ch. 6
April 30	Evolutionary Paleoecology	Sepkoski (1990), Sheehan (1996), Prothero p. 138-144
May 2	Biogeography	Prothero ch. 9
May 4	Graptolites, Condonts and poster preparation	Clarkson ch. 10; Brasier p. 150-161; Briggs et al. (1983)
May 7	Poster Session
May 9	Course Assessment	Preview Learning Reflection #2 (due May 16)

References for Readings

(* = the book containing article, not the article, is on reserve)

Ausich, W. I., and Bottjer, D. J., 1991, History of Tiering among suspension feeders in the benthic marine ecosystem: Journal of Geological Education, v. 39, p. 313-319.

Bambach, R. K., 1983, Ecospace utilization and guilds in marine communities through the Phanerozoic: in Tevesz, M. J. S., and McCall, P. L., Biotic interactions in recent and fossil communities, p. 719-746.

Briggs, D. E. G., Clarkson, E. N. K., and Aldridge, R. J., 1983, The conodont animal: Lethaia, v. 16, p. 1-14.

Clarkson, E. N. K., 1998, Invertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (fourth edition).

*Crame, J. A., 1990, Trophic Structure: in Briggs, D. E. B., and Crowther, P. R., Palaeobiology - a synthesis, p. 385-391.

Parsons, K. M., and Brett, C. E., 1991, Taphonomic processes and biases in modern marine enviornments: an actualistic perspective on fossil assemblage preservation: in Donovan, S. K., The process of fossilization, p. 22-64. (You will only be reading a part of this paper.)

Prothero, D. R., 1998, Bringing fossils to life - an introduction to paleobiology.

Raup, D. M., and Stanley, S. M., 1978, Principles of Paleontology (second edition).

Schafer, W., 1972, Ecology and Palaeoecology of Marine Environments. Translation of 1962 German text by G. Y. Craig.

*Sepkoski, J. J., Jr., 1990, Evolutionary Faunas: in Briggs, D. E. B., and Crowther, P. R., Palaeobiology - a synthesis, p. 37-41.

Sheehan, P. M., 1996, A new look at Ecologic Evolutionary Units (EEUs): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 127, p. 21-32.

Zeigler, A. M., 1965, Silurian marine communities and their environmental significance: Nature, v. 207, p. 270-272.