West Virginia University

Geology 591, Paleobiology

Dr. Thomas Kammer

Mississippian crinoids from Indiana.

Syllabus

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (online)

Readings: Benton, 2000; Lewis & Donovan, 2007

The PhyloCode, referenced in Benton, 2000

Future assignment: Learn to use GEOREF software. Each student will be given a topic to research using GEOREF online through the WVU Library web site.

Phylogenetic/Multivariate Techniques and Data Sets

PAST software link

PAUP software link

Cladistics Files

Crinoids

Osagean-Meramecian crinoid data matrix

Crinoid Paleoecology PowerPoint Presentation

"Age of Crinoids" Talk

"Age of Crinoids paper

Burlington Limestone crinoid list (Gahn, 2002 article in Guidebook)

Ausich et al., 1994

Kammer et al., 1998

Kammer & Ausich, 1987

Spring Field Trip links -

Fossils of the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch

http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/index.html a great site, has it all!

Tree of Life - phylogenies

Reading Lists

The Silurian trilobite Comura.

Archaeopteryx

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