- Docente: Federico Fanti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEO/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Biodiversity and Evolution (cod. 5824)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Geology and Territory (cod. 9073)
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from Oct 16, 2023 to Jan 19, 2024
Learning outcomes
This course aims to provide the basic knowledge and critical elements to independently analyze the problems related to the study of fossil vertebrates. In particular, the student will be able to: - operate professionally within a paleontological excavation, including identification, inventory and mapping, and extraction; - provide a description based on morphological and morphometric basis; - place fossils within a chronostratigraphic and paleogeographic context; - evaluate the paleontological and geological data available for paleoenvironmental considerations; - discuss with competence the characters useful for a taxonomic classification of the finds.
Course contents
Vertebrates paleobiological and paleontological significance through time; taphonomy of fossil vertebrates and vertebrate-bearing deposits; field methodology: field mapping, collecting, preparation and inventory; Vertebrate microsites; Biology and fossil vertebrates; Phylogeny, synapomorphies, homologies, analogies, ontogenesis; Paleozoic early vertebrates and fish; Review of macroscopic anatomy of vertebrates; first tetrapods and amphibians; Permian amniotes and Triassic reptiles; Evolution of fish from the end of the Paleozoic to the Cenozoic; reptiles of the Mesozoic; Birds; Mammals; Outline of vertebrate icnology; Examples of paleobiogeography and vertebrate biostratigraphy; The main fossil sites in Italy; Three-dimensional digital morphological and biometric analysis techniques; Vertebrate paleontology in the educational and museum field.
Readings/Bibliography
Additional volumes
Vertebrate Palaeontology , 3rd Edition . Michael J. Benton. 472 pagine. Blackwell.
Bonebeds – genesis, analysis, and paleobiological significance. R. Rogers,. D. Eberth, and A. Fiorillo (Eds.) 499 pp. University of Chicago Press.
Atlante di Anatomia Macroscopica dei Vertebrati . E. Giavini, E. Menegola., M. Broccia., G. Scarì (Eds.) 54 pp., Springer
The Dinosauria: Second Edition . D. Weishampel, P. Dodson, H. Osmòlska (Eds.), 861 pp. University of California Press.
Teaching methods
Students are requested to attend classes in person
Assessment methods
In person test
Office hours
See the website of Federico Fanti
SDGs
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This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.