Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Biostratigraphy

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	541-0980/01
Abbreviation	BSG
Course title	Biostratigraphy
Credits	0
Coordinating department	Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Petr Skupien, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Statigraphic scales, the biostratigraphic scale and its units. Continental
deposits and a possible abundance of fossils in them. Particularities of the
biostratigraphy of transition sedimentary environments. Biostratigraphy of
marine sedimentary environments. Anoxie conditions. Possibilities of the
employment of biostratigraphic methods in the Precambrian. Principles and
possibilities of biostratigraphic subdivision of individual Phanerozoic
formations.

Literature

CLARKSON E.N.K.: Invertebrate paleontology and evolution. Blackwell, New York, 1998, 468 s. .
BENTON M.J., HARPER D.: Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
DONOVAN, S. K.: The paleobiology of trace fossils. Chichester: Wiley, 1994, vi, 1-308. ISBN 0-471-94843-8.
SARASWATI PRATUL KUMAR, SRINIVASAN M.S., Micropaleontology, Principles and Applications. Springer, 2016, 224 s.

Advised literature

BENTON M.J., HARPER D.: Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
COWEN R.,History of Life, 2013, 5th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN : 978-1-118-51095-7.
GRADSTEIN, F.M. et al.: The Geologic Time Scale 2012. 1st ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2012, x, 437-1144. ISBN 978-0- 444-59434-12.
JAIN S.: Fundamentals of Invertebrate Palaeontology. Springer, 2016, 405 s.

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