SUBJECT

Title

Paleobiogeography

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semester 2

Typically offered in

Spring semester

Course description
  • Fundamentals of paleobiogeography.
  • Methods in descriptive paleobiogeography: terms, definitions, processes.
  • Making palaeogeographic maps.
  • Faunal provinces of the past.
  • Comparative paleobiogeography.
  • Statistical methods.
  • Case studies.
  • Interpretive paleobiogeography.
Readings
  • Cecca, F. (2002): Palaeobiogeography of Marine Fossil Invertebrates. CRC Press, 286 p.
  • Morain, S. A. (1984): Systematic and Regional Biogeography. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., New York.