INTRODUCTION TO DINOSAURIAN OSTEOLOGY

MEA 592D Special Topic, Dinosaurian Osteology
Thursdays, 1:30-4:20, Rm 2115, letter grades
Bone topology - more detail than Dinosaurian World
Purpose: to use literature for self-generated research on dinosaurs

The Dinosauria - TEXT [morphology - family group level; $39.96 paperback (1992), Amazon.com] Best text available, veterinary nomenclature (Peter Dodson)

Odyssey in Time - reference, environments; $24.95 paperback, Amazon.com and in Museum shop [paleoenvironmental - trophic aspects]

Search for recent literature
Tapping cladistics - discussion of its utility
Research an interesting topic later in course

  1. First Lecture (Aug 24-31) -- Introduction
  2. Second Lecture (Aug 31-Sept 7) -- The Dinosaurian Record
  3. Third Lecture (Sept 21) -- Ancestral Dinosaurs (Major Groups)
  4. Fourth Lecture (Sept 28) -- Saurischia (Theropods)
  5. Fifth Lecture (no data)
  6. Sixth Lecture (Oct. 5-Oct. 12) -- Saurischia (Theropods - Coelurosaurs)
  7. Seventh Lecture (Oct. 26-Nov. 2) -- Saurischia (Prosauropods and Sauropods)
  8. Eighth Lecture (Nov. 2-Nov. 9) -- Ornithischia (Thyreophora)
  9. Ninth Lecture (Nov. 9) -- Ornithischia (Marginocephalians)
  10. Tenth Lecture (Nov. 16) -- Ornithischia (Ornithopods)