{"id":2408,"date":"2019-02-01T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=2408"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:46:15","slug":"gs-421-palaeontology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/gs-421-palaeontology\/","title":{"rendered":"GS 421 Palaeontology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2408\" class=\"elementor elementor-2408 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50c25ee elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50c25ee\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-856a3c1\" data-id=\"856a3c1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b8e932 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b8e932\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-214591e\" data-id=\"214591e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1f26bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c1f26bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">GS 421: Palaeontology <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-834bdb7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"834bdb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Syllabus\u200b<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ccc168 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ccc168\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Nature of the fossil record, taphonomy; growth, allometry and heterochrony; species concepts and systematics \u2013 nomenclature, classification and phylogenetics; adaptation and functional morphologic analysis; evolutionary rates and trends; global diversity and extinction, mass extinctions. Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography; palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction; isotopic palaeobiology. Applications of fossils in biostratigraphy, correlation and sequence stratigraphy. Sampling and sample preparation techniques for microfossils, morphology and classification of foraminifera, study of some common benthic and planktonic foraminifera. Stratigraphic palaeontology of India.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61ddbb1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"61ddbb1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Texts\/References<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8cca693 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8cca693\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Foote, M. and Miller, A.I. Principles of Paleontology, III Edition. W.H. Freeman and Company, 2007<\/li><li>Clarkson, E.N.K. Invertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, IV edition, Blackwell Science, 1998<\/li><li>Prothero, D.R Bringing Fossils to Life\u2013An Introduction to Paleobiology. Mc Graw Hill, 1998<\/li><li>Armstrong, H.A. and Brasier, M.D. Microfossils, II Edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2005<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GS 421: Palaeontology Syllabus\u200b Nature of the fossil record, taphonomy; growth, allometry and heterochrony; species concepts and systematics \u2013 nomenclature, classification and phylogenetics; adaptation and functional morphologic analysis; evolutionary rates and trends; global diversity and extinction, mass extinctions. Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography; palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction; isotopic palaeobiology. Applications of fossils in biostratigraphy, correlation and sequence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}