West
Virginia UniversityWest
Virginia University
Geology 632, Paleoecology
Dr. Thomas Kammer
Mississippian crinoids from Indiana.
Howdy, benthic buddies!
Suggestions for Authors of Term Papers
First assignment: Learn to use GEOREF software. Each student will be given a topic to research using GEOREF online through the WVU Library web site.
Second assignment: Read Chapter 8, Paleoecology, p. 117-145, in D.R. Prothero, 1998, Bringing Fossils to Life (or 2004, p. 118-147).
Example of how to outline and present a paper
Multivariate Techniques and Data Sets
Data Matrix in Excel for Trace Fossil Exercise
San Francisco Bay Habitat Communities Excel file
San Francisco Bay Habitat Communities Excel file with interpretations
San Francisco Bay Habitat Communities PowerPoint Presentation
Hamilton Group Abundance Data Hamilton Community Paleoecology Analysis, Part 1 and Part 2
Hamilton Genera Abundance Data Hamilton Community Paleoecology Analysis, Part 2
Hamilton Binary Data Hamilton Community Paleoecology Analysis, Part 2
Hamilton Combined Taxa Data Hamilton Community Paleoecology Analysis, Part 2
Crinoids
Crinoid Paleoecology PowerPoint Presentation
Oxygen Deficient Basins
Wilson and Norris, 2001 Nature Paper
Field Trip links - Calvert Cliffs, Miocene of Maryland
http://www.fossilguy.com/sites/calvert/calv_inv.htm
http://www.fossilguy.com/sites/calvert/calvpics/matoakacliff1.htm
http://www.paresearchers.com/Archaeology/Matoaka/matoaka_cottages_calvert_cliff.htm
http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/fs/fs10.html
http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/paleontology.htm
Fossils of the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch
http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/index.html a great site, has it all!
Precambrian Paleoecology
The Ediacara Biota: Narbonne, 2005
Reading Lists
Trace Fossils, Prothero (1998) trace fossil reading
Multivariate Techniques
The Silurian trilobite Comura.
Archaeopteryx