Dr. Stuart S. Sumida

California State University San Bernardino; Department of Biology

 

BIOLOGY 524 – Fall 2013

ADVANCED VERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY

 

Lecture: BI-204, Wednesday 9:00-10:50 A.M.

Laboratory: BI-204, Friday 9:00-11:50 P.M.

 

Lectures and Reading Assignments

 

 

LECTURE SCHEDULE and READING ASSIGNMENTS

 

Week

Date

Topic(s)

Readings (Full references below)

1

1/9

Course Mechanics and Introduction; Introduction to the Study of the Vertebrate Skeleton

Week 1 Powerpoint

 

 

1/11

Laboratory project assignments.

 

2

1/16

Skull: Braincase and Palate

Week 2 Powerpoint

Week 2 Lecture Notes

Daeschler et al., 2006; Ahlberg et al., 2008; Berman et al, 1992

 

1/18

Project Sketch Plans Due

 

3

1/23

Skull: Dermal Roof

Week 3 Powerpoint

Week 3 Lecture Notes

Daeschler et al., 2006; Hopson and Rougier, 1993

 

1/25

Skeletal Project Activity

 

4

1/30

Skull/Splanchnocranium: Jaws and Hypobranchial Apparatus

Week 4 Powerpoint

Week 4 Lecture Notes

Coats and Clack, 1991; Bolt and Lombard, 2001; Crompton and Parker, 1978; Sidor, 2003.

 

2/1

Skeletal Project Activity

 

5

2/6

Vertebral Column

Week 5 Powerpoint

Week 5 Lecture Notes

Rockwell et al., 1938; Coates, 1996; Sumida et al., 1992; Sumida 1997;

 

2/8

Mid-quarter Project Progress Reports

 

6

2/13

Pectoral Girdle and Humerus

Midterm Examination due no later than 9:00 a.m.

Week 6 Powerpoint

Week 6 Lecture Notes

Coates et al., 2002; Shubin et al., 2007; Sumida, 1997; Sumida and Modesto, 2001; Polly, 2007; Gatesy and Middleton, 2007

 

2/15

Open lab

 

7

2/20

No lecture.  Dr. Sumida away at a conference.

 

 

2/22

Skeletal Project Activity

 

8

2/27

Skeletal Project Activity

 

3/1

Pelvic Girdle and Femur

Week 8 Powerpoint

Week 8 Lecture Notes

Sumida, 1997; Sumida and Modesto, 2001; Polly 2007

9

3/6

Antebrachium and Manus

Week 9 Powerpoint

Week 9 Lecture Notes

Coates et al., 1992; Sumida, 1997; Sumida and Modesto, 2001; Polly, 2007; Gatesy and Middleton, 2007

 

3/8

Skeletal Project Activity

 

10

3/13

Crus and Pes

Week 10 Powerpoint

Week 10 Lecture Notes

Sumida, 1997; Sumida and Modesto, 2001, Polly 2007

 

3/15

Laboratory project assignments due. Class review of projects. Final Exam Distribution

 

 

3/22

Final Examination Due; no later than 12:00.

 

 

 

LITERATURE / READINGS PDFs

 

Ahlberg P. E., J. A. Clack, E. Lukševič, H. Blom, and I.Zupinš.  2008.  ̧Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology. Nature 453:1199-1204. [PDF]

 

Berman, D. S, S. S. Sumida, and R. E. Lombard. 1992. Reinterpretation of the sutural patterns in Diadectes and the interrelationships of the Diadectomorpha. Journal of Paleontology, 66:481-499.  [PDF]

Bolt, J. R., and R. E. Lombard.  2001.  The mandible of the primitive tetrapod Greererpeton and the early evolution of the tetrapod lower jaw.  Journal of Paleontology, 75:1016-1042.  [PDF]

 

Coates, M.  1996.  The Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution.  Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 87:363-421. [PDF]

Coates, M., and J. A. Clack.  1991.  Fish-like gills and breathing in the earliest known tetrapod.  Nature, 352:234-236. [PDF]

Coates, M., J. E. Jeffrey, and M. Ruta.  2002.  Fins to limbs: what the fossils say.  Evolution and Development, 4-5:390-401. [PDF]

 

Crompton, A. W., and P. Parker.  1978.  Evolution of the mammalian masticatory apparatus.  American Scientist, 66:192-202.  [PDF]

 

Daeschler, E. B., N. H. Shubin, and F. A. Jenkins.  2006.  A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan.  Nature, 440:757-763. [PDF]

 

Gatesy, S., and K. M. Middleton. 2007. Skeletal adaptations for flight. Chapter 16, pp. 269-282, in Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation, Brian K Hall (ed.). University of Chicago Press: Chicago. [PDF]

 

Hopson, J. A., and G. W. Rougier.  1993.  Braincase structure in the oldest known skull of a therian mammal: implications for mammalian systematic and cranial evolution.  American Journal of Science, 293:268-299. [PDF]

 

Hutchinson, J. R., and V. Allen.  2009.  The evolutionary continuum of limb function from early theropods to birds.  Naturwissschaften, 96:423-488. [PDF]

 

Polly, P. D. 2007. Limbs in mammalian evolution. Chapter 15, pp. 245-268, in Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation, Brian K Hall (ed.). University of Chicago Press: Chicago. [PDF]

 

Rockwell, H., F. G. Evans, and H. C. Pheasant.  1938.  The comparative morphology of the vertebrate spinal column. Its form as related to function.  Journal of Morphology, 63:87-117. [PDF]

 

Shubin, N. H., E. B. Deaschler, and M. I. Coates.  2007.  The early evolution of the tetrapod humerus.  Science, 304:90-93.  [PDF]

 

Sidor, C.  2003.  Evolutionary trends in the mammalian lower jaw.  Paleobiology, 29:605-640. [PDF]

 

Sumida, S. S.  1997.  Locomotor features of taxa spanning the amphibian to amniote transition. Pages 353-398 in: Sumida, S. S. and K. L. M. Martin (eds.), Amniote Origins: Completing the Transition to Land. Academic Press, San Diego and New York, 510 pages. [PDF]

 

Sumida, S. S., R. E. Lombard, and D. S Berman. 1992. Morphology of the atlas-axis complex of the Late Paleozoic tetrapod suborders Diadectomorpha and Seymouriamorpha. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 336:259-273. [PDF]

 

Sumida, S. S. and S. P. Modesto.  2001. A phylogenetic perspective on locomotory strategies in early amniotes. American Zoologist, 41:586-597. [PDF]

 

 

 

 

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