Monthly Archives: November 2017

The last week! Good luck finishing your research papers (due 12/7, 7:30 a.m., Dropbox) and getting ready for next week’s final examination (12/11, 7-10 p.m.). Now, on to our last topics: Graptolites are disparate, fussy, and a bit strange, but … Continue reading →

The Phylum Echinodermata continued! Please see the links for last week. Your final two quizzes (#11 and #12) will be “superquizzes” with lots of extra credit. Quiz #11 will be fill-in-the-blank questions from the first half of the course (through … Continue reading →

The Phylum Echinodermata is upon us. These organisms could be from Mars if we didn’t know better. You will first want to visit the fantastic echinoderm page of the Tree of Life Project. (Friend of the department Bill Ausich of … Continue reading →

This week we continue our work with the magnificent arthropods. Please review the links from last week. Remember that your Essay #2 is due in your Dropbox folder by 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 14. Your field studies report is … Continue reading →

We’ll spend Tuesday talking about scaphopods, rostroconchs, bivalves, and the hyolithids. Please review the past links. On Thursday we’ll have an introduction to the arthropods. The Phylum Arthropoda is extraordinarily diverse. These are the animals that will inherit the world, … Continue reading →