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Lecture 7: Dinosaurs In History
Describe the 1600s,
Describe the 1700s,
Describe the history of paleontology
28  cards
Lecture 8: Ornithischia- Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs
What are the main features,
What are other shared features,
What were the basal ornithischia
37  cards
Lecture 9: Pachycephalosauria
What does pachycephalosauria mean,
Describe the fossil record discovery,
Who discovered the first pachy do...
22  cards
Lecture 10: Ceratopsian Dinos
Ceratopsia were they well studied...,
What are ceratopsia defined by,
What are the main genus of cerato...
28  cards
Lecture 11: Ornithopoda
Fossil record,
History of discovery,
What discovery was made at bernis...
28  cards
Lecture 12: Sauropodomorpha
Define saurischia,
Derived features of saurischia,
Eoraptor
41  cards
Lecture 14: Theropoda
The late triassic,
The early jurassic,
The middle jurassic
36  cards
Lecture 15: Dinosaur trackways
Are the majority of tracks fossil...,
Mold vs cast,
What interpretation can be reveal...
7  cards
Lecture 16: Pterosaurs
Flyers,
Three levels of flight,
When was air space conquered
35  cards
Lecture 17: Dinosaur Metabolism
What is ectothermy,
What is endothermy,
Why are ectothermy and endothermy...
36  cards
Lecture 18: Marine reptiles
Turtles,
Modern sea turtles,
Archelon the giant
19  cards
Lecture 19: Dinosaurs and paleogeography
Are vertebraes or intervertebraes...,
What is endemism,
What was the temporal distribution
34  cards
Lecture 20: Extinction
Whats the definition of extinction,
What is a background extinction,
What are the causes for a backgro...
47  cards
Lecture 21: Evolution of mammals
Principle of natural selection,
Did mammals have an advantage ove...,
Mammal diversity
23  cards
lecture 13: Theropoda part 1
Theropods general description,
What was the first non bird theropod,
What was the first theropod in no...
33  cards

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