Instructor: Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Office: Geology 4106BR>Phone: x5-4084 E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: Wed 10 - 11:30 am
Instructor: Dr. John W. Merck, Jr.
Office: Centreville 1218 (M, Tu) Geology 1119 (W, Th, F) Phone: x5-2808, x5-4379 E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: Thu 2:00 - 4:00 (Geology 1119) Description:
A survey of the evolution of the vertebrates, encompassing information from the diversity of living members, but concentrating on the contribution of the fossil record. Emphasis is on the phylogenetic systematics, comparative anatomy, developmental biology, and geochronology of major extinct and extant groups.
Prerequisites:
View Vertebrate Paleontology Research Papers on Academia.edu for free. Skip to main content. Vertebrate Palaeontology, Vertebrate Paleontology, Dinosaur Paleontology, Dinosaurian Paleontology; Determinants of blood water δ18O variation in a population of experimental sheep: Implications for paleoclimate reconstruction.
At least one of the following: BSCI207, BSCI392, GEOL104, GEOL204, GEOL331, HONR219D, or permission of the Geology Department.
Texts:
Emphasis:
An advanced survey of vertebrate evolution as revealed by the fossil record and of the methods by which this pattern is illuminated. This course is intended for students with serious professional or avocational interests in vertebrate evolution and some prior knowledge of:
Course Organization:
Two 75 min. lectures and one 50 min. discussion session weekly. Lectures and discussions lost due to University late openings or cancellations or instructor absence will be made up as Panopto video recordings on the ELMS page.
Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques PdfCredit:
Four credit hours.
Course Website:
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol431/
ELMS:
The ELMS Canvas site will include announcements concerning the class; copies of the handouts; and so forth. If you have not already done so, make sure that you get access to ELMS.
Grades:
Final grades will be based on the following items:
Discussion: The weekly discussion will be devoted either to explorations of the technical literature for selected specific topics or to exercises designed to improve your knowledge of background information not suitable for lecture. Four graded homework assignments will serve as the basis for discussions. Three of these, plus a participation score reflecting the general quality of your participation in discussions will serve as the basis of your Discussion Homework grade. (The lowest homework score is dropped automatically.)
Approximately every 2-3 discussion sessions will begin with a brief (five minute) quiz covering lecture material from the previous weeks. Barring snow days, we expect to administer 5 of these. We drop the lowest score to calculate your quiz grade (10%).
Grade calculation: With diligent work it is possible for each student to attain an A in this class. Grading will be based on points gained from the examinations listed above, as follows:
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Class description and attendance policy: Attendance won't be taken, however attendance is required. Exams will be based on lecture and discussion material and reading assignments. A participation score will make up 15% of your discussion grade. Posted web notes are intended as a synopsis of lecture material only and are made available as current and future reference material. We recommend printing these prior to class and making marginal notations. Actual lectures may include additional information. If you miss a lecture you must get full notes from a colleague.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the semester, every student should be able to:
POLICIES
DRAFT Lecture and exam schedule for 2019 - expect whimsical modifications!
Part I: Introduction and Context
* The instructors reserve the right to revise this schedule at their most trivial whim.
Additional Reading
Additional reading on specific topics is cited in many lecture notes.
PDF version of the Syllabus and Lecture schedule available on ELMSLatest revision: 24 January 2019 Below are quick links to the home pages (in alphabetical order) for over 300 journalsthat publish papers of interest to vertebrate paleontologists of all specialties. Note that some home pages contain the tables of contents directly, but others provide links to the relevant sites. Some journals have additional sites via their publishers from which full-text articles can frequently be accessed; these links are also provided. A list of journals that publish papers but either do not have web sites or have sites but do provide (free) web access to tables of contents or articles may be accessed here . (I have removed all diacritical marks from any titles so that anyone searching for a title via a web search engine will be more easily directed to this page. This is not intended as a disrespect for any language, but as a means to direct traffic to the web sites for those publications.
Please note that I have not included journals that only very rarely publish vertebrate paleontology papers (such as American Naturalist and many medical journals).
Journal Of Vertebrate Paleontology Pdf
Some journals shift web sites periodically, becoming temporarily unavailable. I have marked these journals below with a large, red X. If they are offline for an extended period, I'll move them to the list of sites with no web pages. If you have any information about the fate of these journals and their web sites, please e-mail me!
For more extensive information about all these (and any other) journals, please try PubList. Also, BIOSIS has recently initiated the journal portal BiologyBrowser.
Click below to jump to links to places on the web where you can:
SPECIAL THANKSto Jon Baskin, Jay Nair, Sven Sachs, Tommy Tyrberg, and Rick Wagler for their great suggestions for additions to and updates of this page! Jump to journals beginning with:
* * * If you know of any journals I have left out that you think are important, please e-mail me and let me know! * * *
NON-TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
Many organizations that are relevant to vertebrate paleontologists produce newsletters or other publications aimed at a more general audience. These informal publications do not usually contain peer-reviewed, scientific articles, but do contain information useful to members of the vertebrate paleontological community and avid amateurs, including news about current research. Click on the links below to view some of these publications.
DISSERTATIONS
Many North American doctoral dissertations are available for sale via ProQuest.
Many theses and dissertations from students in the university system in Ohio can be downloaded from OhioLINK ETD Service.
Theses Canada is a source for locating theses and dissertations from Canadian universities, but all purchasing is done via ProQuest, as above.
The Center for Research Libraries Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database holds over 750,000 dissertations from the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, and more, though at present it appears that only 12,000 have been cataloged. If you don't find what you want in their database, e-mail them to inquire about as-yet uncataloged holding.
The British Thesis Service makes available copies of theses and dissertations from Great Britain and Ireland. You can search for specific documents here.
You can search French disseretations via ABES-SUDOC (make sure you un-check all options under 'Type of Publication' except dissertations).
The titles and authors of a few German paleontological dissertations may be viewed via the Universitats- und Landesbibliothek Dusseldorf by typing in some appropriate author, title- or keywords (Titelstichwort/Schlagwort). Copies are available by e-mailing the librarian; costs appear to be around $0.20 per page (I don't know if this includes shipping).
The Universistats- und Landesbibliothek Bonn also has some dissertations available on-line.
The China Dissertation Database (CDDB) home page is here, but requires a log-in to access. Don't ask me how to obtain a log-in code -- other than the home page, it's all in Chinese.
If you know a source for other dissertations outside North America, please e-mail me so I can place the information here.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
A variety of publishers are producing new books about vertebrate paleontology and subdisciplines therein. Here are links to the home pages of many of the larger publishers of these edited volumes.
Also try these sites who represent many international publishers:
Journal Of Vertebrate PaleontologyDissertations•New Publications•Out-of-Print Publications•Home Page
OUT-OF-PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Here are links to a few places on the web who specialize (or have specialized sections) for antiquarian geological and paleontological material. Be warned: most of the older stuff is very expensive!
Also try the following book search engines, which search large, global networks of used booksellers simultaneously -- I've had great results with all of them. But get your checkbooks ready -- most of the older stuff isn't cheap! Allbooks.com searches several new and used book search systems simultaneously; it can even find monographs if they're available!
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