Vertebrate Paleontology (EAS-E 415 Spring 2021)
Vertebrate Paleontology (EAS-E 415 Spring 2021)
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Jennifer Moerman Sontchi, the Director of Exhibits and Public Spaces of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, joins us to talk about working on the public side…
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Today we visit with Vince Santucci, senior paleontologist at the US National Park Service. Vince talks about his job, how he got there, what is involved in managing…
Guest 2 - Vince Santucci, National Park Service
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In our final guest slot we have Mairin Balisi, a paleontologist who is currently a postdoc at the La Brea Tarpits Museum in Los Angeles. Mairin talks about her work at…
Guest 3 - Mairin Balisi, paleontologist at La…
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Introductory lecture for EAS-E 412 and EAS-G 512, Introduction to Vertebrate Paleontology.
Lecture 01 - Introduction (Jan 20)
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This lecture provides a broad overview of vertebrate evolution, all of which we will revisit later in the course, and it introduces basic concepts about phylogenetic…
Lecture 02 - Overview of Vertebrate Evolution
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5 billion years in 50 minutes! This lecture covers everything you need to know about geology, geologic time, and Earth history.
Lecture 03 - Overview of Earth History
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Lecture 04 - The Vertebrate Body Plan
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This lecture introduces you to the details of vertebrate skull morphology, including the individual bones along with background on how parts of the skull relate to food…
Lecture 05 - The skull
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In this lecture we look at skulls across a variety of vertebrates, concentrating on the major extant clades.
Lecture 06 - Diversity of the skull
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This lecture introduces you to the vertebrate skeleton. Covers major regions, names of bones, and key details about individual bones.
Lecture 07 - The skeleton
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This lecture introduces you to the structural diversity of the skeleton, including differences associated with lateral undulation and dorsiflexion of the vertebral…
Lecture 08 - Diversity of the skeleton
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This lecture covers functional morphology as it is used in vertebrate paleontology. Biomechanics of limb levers is introduced, to be continued in Lecture 10.
Lecture 09 - Functional morphology: inferring…
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Introduction to functional morphology of tetraopod feeding: diets, jaw mechanics, and teeth specializations.
Lecture 11 - Jaws, Teeth, and Diet
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This session covers scientific literature in paleontology, how to find it, and a quick introduction to the technicalities of what is inside.
Lecture 12 (Part 1) - Dissecting a paleontology…
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This session completes our discussion of paleo literature.
Lecture 12 (Part 2) - Cont. Discussion of…
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This lecture covers the evolution of mammals and their synapsid relatives.
Lecture 13 - The mammal radiation
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This lecture puts the radiation of mammals into context of climate and paleogeographic change in the Cenozoic.
Lecture 14 (part 1) - The Cenozoic Era
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Final segment of the lecture on Cenozoic climate and mammal evolution.
Lecture 14 (part 2) - The Cenozoic Era
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This lecture covers some of the things that can be learned from studying the material and chemical properties of vertebrate skeletons: growth rates, age at death,…
Lecture 15 (part 1) - Bone histology,…
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This is the first of two lectures on the radiation of fishes in the Paleozoic. This one covers the origin of vertebrates and evolution of jawless fishes.
Lecture 16 - the evolution of fishes
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The fish saga continues with the origin and radiation of the gnathostomes. Spoiler alert: they can bite.
Lecture 17 - Fish Two: the Gnathostomes
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Lecture 18 - Tetrapods and the Late Devonian… 23 of 34
Lecture 18 - Tetrapods and the Late Devonian…
In this lecture vertebrates crawl out onto land in the Devonian. They like it well enough to stay, even though they get clobbered by the Late Devonian extinction.Lecture 18 - Tetrapods and the Late Devonian…
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The terrestrial vertebrates of the Late Paleozoic are introduced in this lecture, along with the Carboniferous crisis in which trees are buried, oxygen is produced, and…
Lecture 19 - Terrestrial vertebrates of the late…
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Things go badly wrong for vertebrates -- and for the entire Earth -- at the end of the Permian.
Lecture 20 - The Permo-Triassic Extinction
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Lecture 21 - The Triassic (feat. The Turtles)
Things recover in the Triassic after the big extinction. Mammals, lissamphibians, archosaurs, and (everyone's favorites) the turtles. Just when it gets going…Lecture 21 - The Triassic (feat. The Turtles)
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In this session we unleash lava flows, drain the oceans, and crash an asteroid into the Earth, but we save the flowers.
Lecture 22 (cont) - Jurassic and Cretaceous
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In which another recovery occurs, this time with dinosaurs. Archosaurs rule, Pangea breaks apart, birds fly, and flowers bloom.
Lecture 22 - The Jurassic & Cretaceous (feat.…
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This session covers some of the kinds of careers that exist related to vertebrate paleontology, as well as some of the institutions that exist the further the science.
Lecture 23 (part 1)- Paleo Careers, Professional…
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Lecture 23 (Part 2) - Professional societies and…
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In this lecture we explore the reasons why public lands are important to paleontologists working in the US, what public lands are, and how management of paleontological…
Lecture 24 - Public lands and paleontology
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In this lecture we look at body mass and why it is important for vertebrate evolution. It is one of two synthesis lectures that wrap up threads that were laid this…
Lecture 25 (Part 1) - The evolution of vertebrate…
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In this lecture we finish off discussion of vertebrate body size and its evolution.
Lecture 25 (Part 2) - The evolution of vertebrate…
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The origin of paleontology as a discipline, early discoveries about extinction, a brief history of evolutionary theories, natural selection and other mechanisms, and a…
Lecture 26 - What is evolution?
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