PALEONTOLOGIA

Definition of Paleontology: history, and employ. Concept of fossil. Species and its variability. Nomenclature and classification. Paleontological systematics of the main fossilizable groups: Cnidarians, Molluscs, Brachiopods. Echinoderms, Trilobites, and indications about Cianobacteria, Protists, Corallinaceans and other minor groups. Basics on fossil traces. Death, biostratinomic processes, burial and fossil diagenesys of organisms mineralised and unmineralised parts. Types of fossil-bearing deposits, and their interpretation. Lithogenetic relevance of some fossils. Methods for describing, collecting and studying fossils on outcrops and in the laboratory. Information on: evolution and the history of life on the Earth; fossils as a tool for dating rocks make correlations and paleoecological inferences.

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