PALEOBIOLOGY OF ANGIOSPERM ORIGINS
BOTANY 511 - ADVANCED PALEOBOTANY
(TIME: 9-12 THURSDAYS---B-409C BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES)
Course Outline
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| January 16 | Dr. James A. Doyle, (University of California at Davis) | Molecular, morphological, and fossil data on the origin of angiosperms - can they be reconciled? (3 P.M., Dept. Seminar: Systematics & Evolution Group) |
| January 17 | Discussion Session | Possible timing of the origin of angiosperms. Discussion leader: James A. Doyle. |
| January 22 | Dr. Kathleen B. Pigg (Arizona State University, Tempe) | Triassic floras. |
| January 29 | Ruth Stockey | Jurassic floras (seed plants), Peltaspermales, Pentoxylales, Bennettitales |
| February 5 | Ruth Stockey | Bennettitales (cont'd), Piroconites, Czekanowskiales, Vojnovskales |
| February 12 | Jodi Lammers | Synapomorphies of flowering plants. (Bibiography) |
| February16 -20 | Reading Week | No Class |
| February 26 | Thorsten Hebben | The sistergroup: Extant and extinct Gnetophytes, Bibliography |
| March 5 | Pam Hall | Earliest evidence of flowering plants (Bibliography): The fossils and modes of fossilization (Bibliography ). Chart, Pollen terminology, |
| March 12 | Natalia Holden | Earliest
evidence of flowering plants-the depositional setting, paleophytogeography Bibliography |
| March 19 | Mike Riley | Triassic deposits on a worldwide scale-volcanics? |
| March 26 | Dr. Gar W. Rothwell (Ohio University, Athens) | Angiophytes: Using whole plant concepts to interpret angiosperm origins. |
| April 3 | Trevor Lantz | Jurassic deposits on a worldwide scale-volcanics? |
| April 9 | Lara Yacob | Cretaceous diversification of angiosperms-the trends |