SUBJECT

Title

Biostratigraphy

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semester 2

Typically offered in

Spring semester

Course description
  • History of biostratigraphy
  • The role of biostratigraphy in stratigraphy and geology
  • Index fossils, biozones, FAD, LAD
  • Particularities and bias in palaeontological sampling, basic data in biostratigraphy: the ranges
  • Quantitative biostratigraphy, methods, introduction to PAST, Statistical range extension, rarefaction
  • The Signor-Lipps effect
  • The role of vertebrates in biostratigraphy
  • Groups of vertebrates used in biostratigraphy, Mesozoic biozones, Mammalian zonation, correltation problems
Readings

McGowran, B. (2008): Biostratigraphy: microfossils and geological time. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 480 p.

Hammer, O., Harper, D.A.T. & Ryan, P.D. (2001): PAST: Paleontological Statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica 4: 9 (http://palaeo-electronica.org/2001_2001/past/issue2001_2001.htm).