Australia's Dinosaur Trail: Exploring Life Through Deep Time

EA5120 - Australia's Dinosaur Trail: Exploring Life Through Deep Time

This subject will offer an extended introduction to the fossil record in relation to biosphere evolution through deep time and change in past environments with an outline of how fossils are used to interpret the history of life and Earth. The subject concentrates on fossil vertebrates and includes treatment of completeness of the fossil record, palaeo-environmental and palaeobiological interpretation of fossil remains, and broad scale evolutionary and extinction patterns through time and their interpretation. An introduction to stratigraphy provides a conceptual framework for evaluation of sequence in sedimentary rock systems, based on their layered properties and fossil contents and the interpretation of stratigraphic patterns in terms of past environments.

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Pre-requisites: At least 9 credit points at level 1

Pre-requisites: At least 9 credit points at level 1 Offerings: All

EA3120 - Australia's Dinosaur Trail: Exploring Life Through Deep Time

Provide a conceptual framework for the evaluation of biosphere patterns through deep time, based on the fossil record

Interpret fossils preserved in sedimentary rock systems for broad scale evidence of past environmental succession

Interpret common fossil categories and assemblages and understand their use as indicators of past biological systems and of episodes in Earth history

Discuss evolution and ecology through deep time