Subject Code: ES5L206 Subject Name: Applied Paleontology & Stratigraphy L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Nature of the fossil record, taphonomy; growth, allometry and heterochrony; species concepts and systematics – nomenclature, classification and phylogenetics; adaptation and functional morphologic analysis; evolutionary rates and trends; global diversity and extinction, mass extinctions. Applications of fossils in biostratigraphy, correlation and sequence stratigraphy,
Recent advancements in application of paleontology and micropaleontology
Definition of stratigraphy: Classification of bedding; Basis of stratification; Types and recognition of stratification; Stratification and rock sequence; Indian stratigraphy. Code of stratigraphic nomenclature. Processes of sedimentation, Stratigraphic classification and correlation. Processes controlling stratification- physical, chemical and biological.
Text/ Reference Books:
  1. Michael Foote, Arnold I. Miller, W. H. Freeman, Principles of Paleontology, 
  2. Michael J. Benton, David A. T. Harper, Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record, Wiley-Blackwell.
  3. Bilal-Ul- Haq & Anne Boersoma, Introduction to Marine Micropaleontology, Elsevier Science.
  4. Andew D. Miall, The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences, Springer.
  5. Octavian Catuneanu, Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy: Developments in Sedimentology Elsevier Science.