P: G209 or consent of instructor. Spring. Biological principles applied
to the fossil record. Examination  of the quality of the fossil record,
taxonomic principles and procedures, analytical techniques,
evolutionary theory, evolution and paleoecology of species, populations
and communities, diversification  and extinction, paleogeography.
Laboratories: systematics, stratigraphic distribution, and ecology of
major  fossilized invertebrate phyla.