GEOS 5100 - Paleoherpetology

(4 credits)

Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Geosciences or permission of the instructor.

This course covers amphibian and reptile evolution through time and discusses how it is (and has been) interpreted from the fossil record. In addition, new theories and recent discoveries will be addressed (specifically, their relevance to past and current thinking.) Two 1-hour lectures and two 3-hour labs weekly.