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How do you sample a fossil population?
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Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany
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- 1 How good is the fossil record?
- 2 How do you describe a fossil specimen?
- 3 What is ontogenetic variation?
- 4 How do you sample a fossil population?
- 5 How do you name a new fossil species?
- 6 How do you assemble a cladogram or phylogenetic tree using fossils?
- 7 How do you identify a fossil?
- 8 How do you use fossils to tell time?
- 9 How can fossils reveal what the ancient marine environment was like?
- 10 What does a fossil community tell you about the periodcity of catastrophic events?
- 11 How has paleontology revolutionize the study of evolution?
- 12 What are the major events in the history of life?
- 13 What evidence do we have of the earliest single celled life in the fossil record?
- 14 What is so important about fossil sponges?
- 15 What are Cnidarians and what has their fossil record revealed about the history of life?
- 16 What are Fossil Bryozoans?
- 17 What are Brachiopods?
- 18 What are the major groups of fossil Molluscs?
- 19 What does the fossil record reveal about the evolution of Echinoderms?
- 20 What are Fossil Graptolites, and why are they useful in geology?
- 21 What are Trilobites and Other Fossil Arthropods?
- 22 What is Ichnology?
- 23 Why study fossil plants?
- 24 What are some of the problems in studying fossil plants?
- 25 Lecture 28 Fossil Algae
- 26 Lecture 27 Fossil Fungi
- 27 How did plants colonize the land, based on what we know from modern plants?
- 28 How did plants colonize the land, based on the fossil record?
- 29 How did plants become forests during the Carboniferous?
- 30 What is the fossil record of Horsetails?
- 31 How did the first seed plants (the Gymnosperms) evolve?
- 32 How good is the fossil record of Cycads?
- 33 How did gymnosperms diversify during the early Mesozoic to become a modern dominate plant group?
- 34 What is the significance of the fossil record of Ginkgo?
- 35 How can you use fossil leaves to study past climates?
- 36 Has Darwin’s Abominable Mystery been solved?
- 37 What is an Angiosperm?
- 38 The Fossil Plants of the Green River Formation of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
