Biostratigraphy

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	541-0980/03
Abbreviation	BSG
Course title	Biostratigraphy
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Petr Skupien, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Statigraphic scales.
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.
Micropalaeontology.
Micropaleontological techniques.
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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