SUBJECT
Title
Biostratigraphy
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
- History of biostratigraphy
- The role of biostratigraphy in stratigraphy and geology
- Index fossils, biozones, FAD, LAD
- Particularities and bias in palaeontological sampling, basic data in biostratigraphy: the ranges
- Quantitative biostratigraphy, methods, introduction to PAST, Statistical range extension, rarefaction
- The Signor-Lipps effect
- The role of vertebrates in biostratigraphy
- Groups of vertebrates used in biostratigraphy, Mesozoic biozones, Mammalian zonation, correltation problems
Readings
McGowran, B. (2008): Biostratigraphy: microfossils and geological time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 480 p.
Hammer, O., Harper, D.A.T. & Ryan, P.D. (2001): PAST: Paleontological Statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica 4: 9 (http://palaeo-electronica.org/2001_2001/past/issue2001_2001.htm).