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Teaching team:
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Lecturer: Jeanne Paquette
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Office: FDA Rm 214.
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e-mail: jeannep@eps.mcgill.ca
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Teaching assistants
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Karine Bibeau
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e-mail: k2@eps.mcgill.ca
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Zhenzhen Huang
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e-mail: zzhuang@eps.mcgill.ca
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Course objectives:
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i) understand the nature (biases)
of the fossil record
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ii) learn the major milestones
of the evolutionary history of invertebrates
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iii) identify the main groups of
invertebrate fossils in hand specimen (laboratory)
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Schedule:
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Lectures
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Monday, Wednesday
11:30
am - 12:30 pm.
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FDA, Room 211
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Laboratory
(study
of invertebrate fossils)
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to be decided during the first
week of classes
Mon. or Wed.: 2:30
- 5:00 pm.
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Redpath Museum
Room
106B or FDA Rm 211
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Grading scheme:
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Class tests (Feb. 9, March 16)
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total 30% (10 and 20% each
respectively)
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Weekly laboratory reports (nine
in total)
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25% (2.5% each)
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Laboratory test (Mar. 30, Apr.
3)
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20%
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Final Exam (not cumulative)
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25%
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Supplemental exam available: term
marks reduced to 25%, exam counts for 75%
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TOPICS OUTLINE
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LABORATORIES
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1. Fossils: formation, preservation, bias of record.
2. Biostratigraphy.
3. Origin, diversification (body plans) of earliest animals.
4. Early & middle Paleozoic reef builders |
0. Schedule the laboratory.
1. Fossilization (Jan. 12,17)
2. Microfossils (Jan. 19,24)
3. Stromatolites/Poriferans (Jan. 26-31) |
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First class test, Wednesday
February 9 (10%)
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4. Corals & Bryozoans (Feb.
2-7)
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5. Paleozoic benthos (I): trilobites
6. Paleozoic benthos (II): brachiopods.
7. Rise of modern benthos: bivalves,
gastropods
8. Predation in Mesozoic seas (I):
cephalopods
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5. Trilobites (Feb. 9-14)
6. Brachiopods (Feb. 16, 28)
7. Bivalves (Mar. 7, 9)
8. Cephalopods (Mar. 14, 16)
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9. Second class test, Wednesday
March 16 (20%)
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9. Review (Mar. 21, 23)
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10. Predation in Mesozoic seas
(II): echinoderms
11. Nearly vertebrates: carpoids, conodonts, graptolites. 12. Paleogeography & ichnology.
13. Mechanisms of evolution and
extinction
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10. Lab test (Mar. 30, Apr. 3)
11. Echinoderms (Apr. 10, 12)
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Final exam: during final exam
period (25%)
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