Unit PALEONTOLOGY AND LABORATORY
- Course
- Geology
- Study-unit Code
- GP004847
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Marco Cherin
- Teachers
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- Marco Cherin
- Hours
- 78 ore - Marco Cherin
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline geologiche
- Academic discipline
- GEO/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Paleontology: origins and general information. Paleontology and Geological Time. Taxonomy and classification. Tafonomy. Evolution. Biostratigraphy and biochronology. Extinctions. Biology, systematics and biostratigraphic value of the main fossil groups.
- Reference texts
- Main book:
Società Paleontologica Italiana (a dura di) - 2020 - Manuale di Paleontologia. Fondamenti-Applicazioni. Edizioni Idelson Gnocchi
Other books:
Benton M.J. & Harper M.T. - 2020 - Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record. Second Edition. Wiley Blackwell - Educational objectives
- This teaching is the first test that the student faces in geological-stratigraphical-paleontological scope within the degree program. The main skills that the students will acquire are the main knowledges of the theorical and evolutive Paleontology and the relationships existing among Geology, Biology, Paleontology, and other Natural Sciences. Biostratigraphic applications. The criteria to recognize the main systematyc groups.
- Teaching methods
- Face to face
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam. The exam consists of an oral test of about 30 minutes in order to understand the capability acquired by the student on theoretical and practical contents of the program. The exam will also test the communication skills and the capability to corelate the theoric and practical knowledges.
- Extended program
- Introduction to Paleontology.
Origins of Paleontology.
Geological time.
Classification and Taxonomy.
Tafonomy.
Evolution
Biostratigraphy and Biochronology
Extinctions.
Morphology, biology, systematycs and biostratigraphy of the following groups:Porifera e Archaeocyatha, Cnidaria , Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Arthropoda , Mollusca, Echinodermata, Hemichordata.