PřF:GS091 Paleontology - Course Information
GS091 Paleontology
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Nela Doláková, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Nela Doláková, CSc.
Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Ing. Jana Pechmannová
Supplier department: Department of Geological Sciences – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - 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
- there are 16 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- 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
- Literature
- POKORNÝ, Vladimír. Všeobecná paleontologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1992, 296 s. ISBN 80-7066-585-8. info
- HOUŠA, Václav. Základy taxonomie pro zoopaleontology. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1980, 169 s. info
- HAQ, Bilal U. and Anne BORESOMA. Introduction to marine micropaleontology. New York: Elsevier, 1978, 375 s. ISBN 0444002677. info
- Teaching methods
- not applicable
- Assessment methods
- state exam - oral
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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