GEO270 DINOSAURS!
Fall 2017
TR, 12:30-1:45; SIMS 201
Instructor: Dr. Diana Boyer
e-mail: boyerd@winthrop.edu
Office: 212B Sims
Office Hours: Tues 2-3, Wed 9:30-11 and by appointment
Text: Fastovsky, D. and
Weishampel, D.B, 2014, Dinosaurs: a concise natural history, Cambridge
University Press, second edition, 408p. REQUIRED
Many more details on this course available through Blackboard
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Tentative schedule of topics |
Assignments |
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Week 1 Aug 22-24 |
Paleontology, dinosaurs and geology |
Chap 1 |
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2 Aug
29-31 |
Climate, Evolution and Science |
Chap 2-3 |
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Week
3 Sep
5-7 |
Classification and dino anatomy |
Chap 3-4 |
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Week
4 Sep
12-14 |
Early Dinosaurs, intro to Ornithichian |
Chap 5 |
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Week
5 Sept
19-21 |
Thyreophora, Marginocephalia |
Chap 5-6 |
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Week
6 Sep
26-28 |
Exam1 (9/26), Marginocephalia, Ornithopods, |
Chap 6-7 |
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Week 7 Oct 3-5 |
Saurischia, Sauropodamorpha |
Chap 8 |
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Week 8 Oct 10-12 |
Therapoda and T.
rex |
Chap 9 |
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Week 9 Oct 17-19 |
Fall Break (10/17), more Theropods |
Chap 9-10 |
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Week 10 Oct 24-26 |
Can you out run T. rex?,
dinos are birds |
Chap 10-11 |
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Week 10 Oct31-Nov2 |
feathered dinos, endothermy ectothermy |
Chap 12 |
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Week 11 Nov 7-9 |
Exam 2 (11/7), Other Mesozoic beasts |
Chap 13 |
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Week 12 Nov 14-16 |
K-Pg extinction, dino
diversity |
Chap 16, 13 |
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Week 13 Nov 21-23 |
History of Dinosaur Paleontology , Thanksgiving |
Chap 14 |
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Week 14 Nov 28-30 |
Current events and review |
TBA |
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Final Exam |
Thursday Dec 7th,
11:30 am |
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