The Cretaceous World part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This textbook explores the interactions between the physical, chemical and biological processes occurring both within the Earth and at its surface during the Cretaceous Period. The book highlights ...

Guidebook for the Fieldtrips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The papers in this volume serve as a record of the field trips for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, held during October 2001 at Montana State University in Bozeman, ...

Paleontological Sonification: Letting Music Bring Fossils to Your Ears part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper from the Journal of Geoscience Education discusses sonification, the process of translating any type of data into sound. In paleontology, it is possible to render various aspects of fossil ...

Osteology of Tyrannosaurus rex: Insights from a Nearly Complete Skeleton and High-Resolution Computed Tomographic Analysis of the Skull part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This memoir contains the longest description of Tyrannosaurus rex osteology to date in a comprehensive description of the Field Museum specimen "Sue." The text includes neural ...

The Extant Phylogenetic Bracket and The Importance of Reconstructing Soft Tissues in Fossils part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In the original source for modern functional morphology reconstructions, Dr. Witmer of Ohio State University, Athens, details the methods for inference of soft-tissue anatomy using phylogenetics. ...

A Taphonomic Study of the Wealden Beds of southern Britain part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In this PhD thesis, Alex Burton examines the taphonomy of several sections of the lower Cretaceous Wealden beds of southern England for their preservational relationships. The dissertation divides ...

Introducing Evolution to Non-Biology Majors Via the Fossil Record: A case study from the Israeli High School System part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper discusses the curriculum, From Dinosaurs to Darwin: Evolution from the Perspective of Geologic Time, and a case study of the implementation of that curriculum in a high school class. Many ...

A Laboratory Exercise on Determining Dinosaur Speeds Using Dimensional Analysis part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This Journal of Geoscience Education article describes a laboratory exercise in which measurements from a dinosaur trackway are used to estimate how fast the dinosaur track makers were moving. The ...

The Godzilla Syndrome; Scientific Inaccuracies of Prehistoric Animals in the Movies part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This Journal of Geoscience Education article describes a project in which students in geologic history and paleontology courses were assigned to review a video that depicted prehistoric animals with ...

Footprints as Inquiry-Based Learning Tools part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This Journal of Geoscience Education article describes three activities using biogenic and physical traces in the recreation of past events to help develop student understanding of the process of ...