PřF:GS091 Paleontology - Course Information

GS091 Paleontology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2019

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Nela Doláková, CSc. (lecturer)

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Prerequisites

Relevant subjects according to study programme

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Course objectives

State exam

Learning outcomes

State exam

Syllabus

1. The origin of Life System – basic characteristic of individual groups, phylogenetic ralations, stratigraphy and paleogeography, applications in geology 2. Procaryota, Fungi 3. Algobionta 4. Cormobionta 5. Protoctista (Protozoa), 6. Archeocyatha, Porifera, Coelenterata, Vermes 7. Arthropoda 8. Mollusca 9. Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Echinodermata 10. Hemichordata, Chordata (Vertebrata) 11. Taphonomy and biostratinomy - origin and types of fossils, external and internal conditions of their preservation and destruction of fossils 12. Paleoecology – biotic and abiotic factors, relations among organisms, environmental adaptations,ecological sucsession 13. Paleobiogeography – origin and evolution of areals, biogeographical structure of Earth surface, principles and probabilities of climatic fluctuations, changes of organisms provincionality 14. Systematics, taxonomy, classification, nomenclature 15. Methods of paleontological research – field and laboratory ones 16. Evolution, evolution of ecosystems and biotic crises in the Earth history 17. Geological activities of organisms, rockbuilding fossils - principles of production of hard skelets, environmental changes caused by organisms, riff- building organisms; secondary accumulations of skeletal parts

Assessment methods

state exam - oral

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.