COURSE OUTLINE AND TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE
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Date |
Lab. Exercise |
Lecture Topic |
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W Sept. |
5 |
Laboratory Introduction,
web/e-mail exercise |
Introduction & Geological
Context (Chapt. 1) |
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F Sept. |
7 |
#1, Modes of Preservation
and
Laboratory Preparation Techniques |
Classification & Modes
of fossil preservation (Chapt. 2, Schopf, 1975) |
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M Sept. |
10 |
#2, Prokaryots, Algae
and Fungi |
Origins of life, and
evolution during the Precambrian (Chapt. 4) |
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W Sept. |
12 |
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Algae and Fungi (Chapt. 5
& 6) |
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F Sept. |
14 |
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The conquest of Land - The
origin of Embryophytic Clades (Chapt. 7, 8 & 9) |
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Sunday, September 16
- Field trip to Steuvenville and Cambridge for coal balls and Pennsylvanian
compressions |
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M Sept. |
17 |
#3. Simplest & Earliest
Land Plants |
Diversification of the Land
Flora - Evolution of stem/leaf/root organography |
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W Sept. |
19 |
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The Rhynie
Chert Flora |
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F Sept. |
21 |
#4, Zosterophylls
& Lycophytes |
Zosterophylls to Lycophytes
(Chapt. 10) |
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M Sept. |
24 |
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Evolution of Lycopodiales,
Selaginellales & the isoetalean clade |
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W Sept. |
26 |
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Lepidodendrales to
Isoetales - developmental modifications |
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F Sept |
28 |
#5,
Equisetophytes |
The appearance of ferns,
equisetophytes and lignophytes (Chapt. 9, 14 & 21) |
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Sunday, September
30 - Field trip to Alta, WV to collect Mississ n ippian compressions and Pennsylvanian
Stigmaria from below coal seams |
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M Oct. |
1 |
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Equisetophytes |
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W Oct. |
3 |
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Fern clades 1 & 2
(Stauropteridales, Zygopteridales) |
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F Oct. |
5 |
#6, Ferns |
Fern clade 3: Marattiales
& Ophioglosales |
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M Oct. |
8 |
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Fern clade 3:
Filicales - the first radiation |
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W Oct. |
10 |
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Fern clade 3: Filicales - the
second radiation, Hydropteridales, origins of modern ferns |
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F Oct. |
12 |
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Midterm Exam
(Through Equisetophytes) |
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M Oct. |
15 |
#7, Progymnosperms |
The origin of gymnospermous
reproduction |
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W Oct. |
17 |
#8, Hydrasperman
reproduction, Elkinsia, Lyginopterids, & Medullosans |
Radiation of the
lignophytes |
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F Oct. |
19 |
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Seed ferns - Hydrasperman &
Medullosan |
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M Oct. |
22 |
Seed ferns. Coal ball
cutting & Peel Technique |
Pennsylvanian wetland vegetation (Chapt. 12) |
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W Oct. |
24 |
Seed ferns. Techniques
(cont.) |
Laboratory Exercises |
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F Oct. |
26 |
Seed ferns.
Techniques (cont.) |
Laboratory Exercises |
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M Oct. |
28 |
#9, Callistophytales,
Glossopteridales, Bennettitales |
Callistophyton and the "higher" seed ferns |
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W Oct. |
31 |
#10, Cordaites &
Conifers |
Cordaites and the evolution
of conifers |
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F Nov. |
2 |
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Origins of modern conifer
families |
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M Nov. |
5 |
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Conifers (Cont.), and the
Gnetales |
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W Nov. |
7 |
#11, Flowering Plant
structure, reproduction & Fossils |
Intro. to Flowering Plants
- Angiosperm Features Phylogeny and the Rise of Angiosperm Dominance |
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F Nov. |
9 |
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Diversification of
flowering plants |
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M. Nov. |
12 |
No Lab |
Vetrans Day Holiday - No Class |
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Final Examination
will be Thursday Nov. 15, 10:10 am |
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