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Lecture 0 Introduction to Vertebrate Paleontology

Lecture 1 How to Grow a Vertebrate?

Lecture 2 Amphioxus, the Quintessential Chordate

Lecture 3 Our Ancestry with Sea Squirts

Lecture 4 How to Grow a Brain and Backbone. Neural Crest Cells

Lecture 5 Three Hypotheses on the Origin of Chordates

Lecture 6 Owen's Body Plan and the Fossils of Chengjiang

Lecture 7 How fossils are made?

Lecture 8 Where to Look for Fossil Vertebrates?

Lecture 9 Fossils and the Geological Time-Scale

Lecture 10 Why do Vertebrates Look that Way? Functional Morphology

Lecture 11 What is a Cladogram?

Lecture 13 Early Fish and the Origin of Bone, Scales and Teeth

Lecture 14 When Fish Lacked Jaws

Lecture 15 Living Fish Without Jaws: Hagfish and Lampreys

Lecture 16 Origin of Jaws in Fish

Lecture 17 Fossil Armored Fish and Other Primitive Jawed Fish

Lecture 18 Origin of Bony Fish, Early Actinopterygians

Lecture 19 The Evolution of Fish Jaws and Fish Tails

Lecture 20 The Difference between Lung Fish and Coelacanths

Lecture 21 How Vertebrates Conquered the Land

Lecture 22 The First Tetrapods

Lecture 23 Early Amphibians of the Paleozoic

Lecture 24 Its all in the Backbone, Vertebra in Early Tetrapods

Lecture 25 Jaw Muscles in Early Tetrapods and Amphibians

Lecture 26 The Origin of Frogs and Salamanders

Lecture 27 The Reptile Skull

Lecture 28 The Reptile Skeleton

Lecture 29 The Origin of the Extraordinary Egg

Lecture 30 Holes in the Skull: Temporal Fenestrae Patterns

Lecture 31 Who are the Early Anapsid Reptiles?

Lecture 32 Who are the Early Diapsid Reptiles?

Lecture 33 Who are the Early Synapsid Reptiles?

Lecture 33a A Closer Look at Dicynodonts

Lecture 35 Key Traits of Archosauromorpha: A new group of Diapsid Reptiles

Lecture 36 Breathing in Archosauromorphs

Lecture 37 Triassic Archosauromorphs

Lecture 38 Ankle Bones: Crurotarsi vs. Avemetatarsalia

Lecture 39 Curotarsians of the Triassic and Beyond

Lecture 40 Triassic Marine Reptiles

Lecture 41 How Triassic Reptiles Became Fast

Lecture 42 Where did the Dinosaurs come from?

Lecture 43 Prehistoric Sharks

Lecture 44 How Sharks Conquered the Oceans

Lecture 45 The Radiation of Ray-Fin Fish and the Skulls of Mimipiscis and Amia

Lecture 46 Fossil Fish Scales

Lecture 47 The Great Feeding Innovation in Fish

Lecture 48 The Modern Fish: Neopterygii and the Arrival of the Teleostei

Lecture 48a The Fossil Record of Trout

Lecture 49 Saurischian vs. Ornithischian Dinosaurs

Lecture 49a- A New Dinosaur Tree?

Lecture 50 Overview of Saurischian Dinosaurs

Lecture 50a How Tyrannosaurus rex became king of the dinosaurs

Lecture 50b Zophia’s Monster: Deinocheirus

Lecture 51 Overview of Ornithischian Dinosaurs

Lecture 51a The Story of Stegosaurus

Lecture 52 Thermoregulation in Dinosaurs

Lecture 53 Feathered Dinosaurs

Lecture 54 Pterosaurs Prehistoric Dragons

Lecture 54a Anahanguera Brazil's Pterosaurs

Lecture 55 The Origin of Turtles

Lecture 55a A new fossil in the origin of turtle debate

Lecture 56 The Turtles: Pleurodires vs. Cryptodires

Lecture 57 The Fossil Record of Lizards

Lecture 58 The Origin of Snakes

Lecture 59 Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs

Lecture 60 The Skeleton of Archaeopteryx

Lecture 61 The Origin of Flight in Birds

Lecture 62 Mesozoic Birds

Lecture 63 How did Birds Survive the K-T Extinction?

Lecture 64 The Fossil Record of Cenozoic Birds

Lecture 64a Fossil Turkeys!

Lecture 65 Cynodonts: Between Reptile and Mammal

Lecture 65a Baby Kayentatherium

Lecture 66 Evolution of the Mammal Ear

Lecture 67 The Origin of Chewing in Mammals

Lecture 68 Morganucodon: The First True Mammal?

Lecture 69 The Fossil Record of Multituberculates and Monotremes

Lecture 70 The Tribosphenic Molar

Lecture 71 Why are there so many Marsupials in Australia?

Lecture 71a Have you ever heard of Taeniodonts?

Lecture 72 What is an Afrothere?

Lecture 73 Mastodons and Mammoths

Lecture 74 The Mystery of Bat Origins

Lecture 75 The Evolution of Shrews and Moles

Lecture 76 The Evolution of Rodent Jaws

Lecture 76a The Fossil Record of Hamsters

Lecture 77 How to Distinguish the astragulus bone of perissodactyls and artiodactyls.

Lecture 77a Hyopsodus: Why Common Fossils are Important

Lecture 78 Fossils and the Origin of Whales and Dolphins

Lecture 78a - What is Andrewsarchus?

Lecture 79 Extinct and Living Perissodactyla

Lecture 80 Meat Eating Mammals: Creodonts and Carnivores

Lecture 80a Hyainailouroidea Creodonts: a post-Eocene group

Lecture 80b: Fossil Record of Dogs, Foxes and Wolves

Lecture 81 Who Killed the Mega Mammals?

Lecture 81a What Killed the Mega Mammals? Update!

Lecture 82 The First Primates

Lecture 83 Primate Noses: Fossil Strepsirrihini and Haplorhini

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Lecture 84 Why are there so Many Lemurs in Madagascar?

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Lecture 85 The First Monkeys

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Lecture 85a Rooneyia: An enigmatic fossil primate from Texas.

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Lecture 86 Fossil Apes

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Lecture 87 Ardipithecus and the Origin of Bipedial Walking in Humans

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Lecture 88 Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo

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Lecture 89 When did Early Humans Leave Africa?

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The Story of Triceratops

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The Mysterious Extinction of Multituberculates

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Explore the fascinating world of vertebrate paleontology in this comprehensive 18-hour course from Utah State University. Delve into the origins and evolution of vertebrates, from early chordates to modern mammals. Learn about key anatomical features, fossil formation, and geological time scales. Examine the development of jaws, bones, and complex body plans across various vertebrate groups. Investigate major evolutionary transitions, including the conquest of land and the origin of flight. Study diverse prehistoric creatures like dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and early mammals. Analyze cladograms, functional morphology, and important fossil discoveries. Discover how major extinction events shaped vertebrate diversity. Gain insights into human evolution and the emergence of bipedalism. Through 89 detailed lectures, develop a deep understanding of vertebrate paleontology and the incredible story of life on Earth.

Vertebrate Paleontology

Utah State University

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