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APS269 - Palaeobiology

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By: Harriet Brooks
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Decks in this class (19)

Lecture 1 - introduction
What does the punctuated equilibr...,
Define fossil,
What percentage of the fossil rec...
6  cards
lecture 1 - reading notes "fibres and cellular structures preserved in 75-million-year-old dinosaur specimens"
Define endogenous,
What is collagen,
The cretaceous period
12  cards
Lecture 2 - the nature of the fossil record
To become a useful fossil an orga...,
Why is the fossil record incomplete,
Why is the fossil record biased
11  cards
lecture 2 - reading notes "making the best of a patchy fossil record"
Define stratigraphy,
Define rarefaction,
Rock outcrop is
3  cards
Lecture 2 - reading notes "shape of Mesozoic dinosaur richness"
Define species richness,
What is the campanian maastrichtian,
Define coprolite
11  cards
Lecture 3 - exceptional preservation
What is exceptional preservation,
Define lagerstatten,
2 basic types of fossil lagerstatten
20  cards
Lecture 3 - reading notes "an exceptionally preserved lower cretaceous ecosystem"
Define invertebrate,
Define biota,
Define lithology
24  cards
Lecture 4 - taxonomy and phylogeny
Define taxonomy,
Where does speciation occur,
Problems with taxonomy in the past
17  cards
Lecture 5 - Interpreting past environments
What frameworks are important,
What do spatial frameworks show,
When did dinosaurs evolve
12  cards
Lecture 6 - functional morphology and behaviour
Biomechanics,
Small bipedal theropod and ornith...,
Large bipedal theropod and ornith...
12  cards
Lecture 7 - evolutionary patterns from the fossil record
What are the 2 important things w...,
What is phyletic gradualism,
What are the 7 evolutionary patte...
16  cards
Lecture 8 - Palaeodiversity
Define biodiversity,
2 methods to measure biodiversity...,
What are the 3 main problems with...
7  cards
Lecture 9 - fossils and the molecular revolution
What biological advance was made ...,
What biological advance was made ...,
1960s
16  cards
Lecture 10 - introduction to human evolution and how we study it
Why study human evolution,
How do we study human evolution,
What time periods does the study ...
25  cards
Lecture 11 - origin of the hominoidea
Tuang boy anatomy,
Arobustus 2 1 million years old,
Is human evolution a linear progr...
10  cards
Lecture 12 - early Homo
Where were the first of the genus...,
What was discovered in 1960 65 by...,
In what 3 main ways did the namin...
10  cards
Lecture 13 - Homo erectus - out of Africa 1
What was discovered in 1985,
Where is homo erectus predominant...,
Where is homo ergaster generally ...
14  cards
Lecture 14 - the origin of modern humans and 'out of Africa' 2
When did the first molars occur,
What are sapiens the sister group to,
Neanderthals key facts
9  cards
Lecture 15 - evolution of modern humans
Brain expansion is related to,
Problems with a big brain size,
Evidence for speech
6  cards

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