PALEONTOLOGY SERIES
Mesozoic Ruling Reptiles
Professor William B. Gallagher

This course is co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, located at 33rd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia.*

LECTURES WILL BE HELD FROM 10:15 AM TO 11:45 AM

1. Saturday, January 26, 2008
   Early history of dinosaur and marine reptile fossil discoveries.  The Mesozoic Era.
2. Saturday, February 2, 2008
   Origins of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic ruling reptiles.  The dinosaur skeleton.
3. Saturday, February 9, 2008
   Dinosaur diversity.  Digging up a giant dinosaur.
4. Saturday, February 16, 2008
   Warm-blooded dinosaurs?  Dinosaur behavior and activity level.
5. Saturday, February 23, 2008
   Dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies.
6. Saturday, March 1, 2008
   The origins of birds.  Feathered dinosaurs.
7. Saturday, March 8, 2008
   Life in the Mesozoic seas.
8. Saturday, March 15, 2008
   Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.
9. Saturday, March 22, 2008
   Mosasaurs and other marine reptiles.  Pterosaurs - the flying reptiles.      
10. Saturday, March 29, 2008
    The end of the Mesozoic - the big extinction.                                                                                           

Register for this course at the first lecture.  No preregistration required.

Recommended reading:

When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey by William B. Gallagher.  Rutgers University Press. 

New Brunswick, NJ.  1997.

*The entrance for the course is at the east end of the building, next to the garage.

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