PALEONTOLOGY

Code 029DD
Credits 6

Learning outcomes

To provide the student with basic theoretical knowledge in order to understand the main processes of fossilization and of the evolution of life through time.
To provide the student with basic knowledge of morphology, evolutionary history, stratigraphic distribution and palaeoecology of the most important fossils of the Phanerozoic, in order to recognize and describe the remains with an appropriate terminology.