BIOL 573. Vertebrate Palaeontology Field Course.
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BIOL 573
Vertebrate Palaeontology Field Course.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
Terms Offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Terrestrial vertebrate fossils (i.e. dinosaurs, crocodiles and other reptiles) and palaeocommunity analysis, including practical training with fossil identification, mapping, collecting, and stratigraphic interpretation.
- Summer
- Prerequisites: BIOL 304 and BIOL 352 or permission of instructor.
- Notes: Spring field course with completed project and presentation by the end of the Summer. Given in a selected Late Cretaceous Alberta and/or Saskatchewan site. Enrolment limited to 15 students.
- This course, given at selected localities in Alberta and/or Saskatchewan in May, has an additional fee of $1,500.00 which includes room and board, museum entrance fees, and transportation during the course, but not tuition or transportation to western Canada.
- This course is offered in the summer.
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