Geology 315
INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY & PALEOECOLOGY
Fall 2007
 

Student Presentations

    Four lecture periods will be devoted to short (~10 minute) presentations by students. Each student will report on an assigned article by emphasizing the major issues covered, describing the methods used by the author(s) to understand the evolutionary phenomena discussed, and relating the article to topics covered in class. Students will be responsible for providing xerox copies of a one-page, typed summary (maximum of 2-3 paragraphs double-spaced beginning with a complete citation of the article) and 2 key illustrations or diagrams (used as overheads). Grades will be based on the quality of the summary page and oral presentation and on participation in group discussions. Seek my guidance well in advance to make sure that you understand the essential aspects of your article.

 
September 19

  • Benton, M.J., Wills, M.A., and Hitchin, R. 2000. Quality of the fossil record through time. Nature, 403:534-537.

  • Steiner, M., and Reitner, J. 2001. Evidence of organic structures in Ediacara-type fossils and associated microbial mats.
    Geology, 29:1119-1122.

  • Phoenix, V.R., Konhauser, K.O., Adams, D.G., and Bottrell, S.H. 2001. Role of biomineralization as an ultraviolet shield:
    Implications for Archean life. Geology, 29:823-826.

  • Rasmussen, B. 2000. Filamentous microfossils in a 3,235-million-year-old volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit.
    Nature, 405:676-679.

  • Seilacher, A. 1989. Vendozoa: organismic construction in the Proterozoic biosphere. Lethaia, 22:229-239.

  • Vermeij, G.J. 1990. The origin of skeletons. Palaios, 4:585-589.

 

October 5

  • Babcock, L.E. 1993. Trilobite malformations and the fossil record of behavioral asymmetry. Journal of Paleontology, 67:217-229.

  • Briggs, D.E.G., et al. 1992. Morphological disparity in the Cambrian. Science, 256:1670-1673.

  • Chen, J. -Y., et al. 1994. Evidence for monophyly and arthropod affinity of Cambrian giant predators. Science, 264:1304-1308.

  • Hagadorn, J.W., Dott, R.H., Jr., and Damrow, D. 2002. Stranded on a Late Cambrian shoreline:
    Medusae from central Wisconsin. Geology, 30: 147-150.

  • Valentine, J.W. 1995. Why no new phyla after the Cambrian? Genome and Ecospace hypotheses revisited. Palaios, 10:190-194.

 

November 16

  • Dietl, G.P., Herbert, G.S., and Vermeij, G.J. 2004. Reduced competition and altered feeding behavior among marine snails
    after a mass extinction. Science, 306:2229-2231.

  • Kowaleski, M., Dulai, A., and Fürsich, F.T. 1998. A fossil record full of holes: the Phanerozoic history of drilling predation.
    Geology, 26:1091-1094.

  • Morse, A.N.C. 1991. How do planktonic larvae know where to settle? American Scientist, 79:154-167.

  • Twitchett, R.J., Looy, C.V., Morante, R., Visscher, H., and Wignall, P.B. 2001. Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and
    terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian biotic crisis. Geology, 29:351-354.

  • Vermeij, G.J. 1977. The Mesozoic marine revolution: gastropods, predators, and grazers. Paleobiology, 3:245-258.

 

December 3

  • Buatois, L.A., and Mángano, M.G. 1993. Ecospace utilization, paleoenvironmental trends, and the evolution of early nonmarine biotas.
    Geology, 21:595-598.

  • Guensburg, T.E., and Sprinkle, J. 2001. Earliest crinoids: New evidence for the origin of the dominant Paleozoic echinoderm.
    Geology, 29:131-134.

  • Labandeira, C.C., and Sepkoski, J.J., Jr. 1993. Insect diversity in the fossil record. Science, 261:310-315.

  • MacNaughton, R.B., Cole, J.M., Dalrymple, R.W., Braddy, S.J., Briggs, D.E.G., and Lukie, T.D. 2002. First steps on land:
    Arthropod trackways in Cambrian-Ordovician eolian sandstone, southeastern Ontario, Canada. Geology, 30:391-394.

  • Jablonski, D. 1999. The future of the fossil record. Science, 284:2114-2116.


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