Dr. Stuart S. Sumida
Winter 2009
Thursday
SUMMARY CLASS SCHEDULE and READING ASSIGNMENTS
Dr. Sumida will present introductory
materials during the weeks 1-2 sessions.
Subsequent sessions will be the responsibility of one or more students
(depending on enrollment). Refer to the
schedule below for topics, activities, and reading assignments. Sessions designated with an asterisk (*)
indicate laboratory material quiz days
Week
|
Date
|
Topic/Activity |
|
1 |
1/15 |
Introduction; Distribution
of Class Assignments |
|
2 |
1/22 |
Phylogenetic
Perspective; Basal Amniote Structure and the Sister-Groups of Pelycosauria
(Sumida) |
|
3 |
1/29 |
Caseosauria
– Eothyrididae (English) |
|
4 |
2/5 |
Dr. Sumida away at meetings.
No class meeting. |
|
5 |
2/12 |
Caseosauria
– Caseidae (Lujan) |
|
6 |
2/19 |
Eupleycosauria
– Varanopideae (Pelletier) |
|
7 |
2/26 |
|
|
8 |
3/5 |
|
|
9 |
3/12 |
Eupleycosauria
– Sphenacodontoidea – Haptodus, Sphenacodon, Ctenorhachis |
|
10 |
3/19 |
Eupleycosauria
– Sphenacodontoidea – Ctenospondylus, Dimetrodon, Secodontosaurus |
|
Final |
3/26 |
Final
Examination; 4:00; 50 points. |
DETAILED
CLASS READING and ASSIGNMENTS:
All
Students/All Weeks:
All students will be
expected to read the literature listed below.
Each student assigned to that week’s material will be responsible for
(1) acquiring the primary literature from Dr. Sumida (I have most, but not all
of it.), or from the library, or securing it from interlibrary loan; (2) tuning
those papers into PDF files; (3) sending copied of those PDF files to the
remainder of the class; presenting a powerpoint summary of the materials for
class review and discussion.
Primary
Literature:
These papers are listed
in the order of suggested reading – not necessarily chronological or
alphabetical order.
Week
1: None
Week
2: None
Week
3 (Caseosauria - Eothyrididae):
Week
3 (Caseosauria - Eothyrididae):
Romer, A.S.
1937. New genera and species of
pelycosaurian reptiles. New
England Zoological Club Papers,
16:89-96. [PDF]
Romer, A.S. and L. I. Price. 1940. Review
of the Pelycosauria. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
Special Papers, 28: 1-538. (pp. 248-251)
[PDF]
Langson, W.
1965. Oedaleops campi (Reptilia:
Pelycosauria) A new genus and species from the Lower Permian of New Mexico, and
the family Eothyrididae. Bulletin of Texas Memorial Museum, 9:1-47. [PDF]
Reisz, R. R.
1986. Pelycosauria. Handbüch
der Paleoherpetology (Encyclopedia of
Paleoherpetology), 17A:1-102. (pp. +
appropriate figures at back) [PDF]
Week
4: None
Week
5 (Caseosauria – Caseidae):
Olson, E.C.
1954. Fauna of the Vale and
Choza. 7. Pelycosauria: family Caseidae. Fieldiana, Geology, 10:193-204. [PDF]
Olson, E. C., and J. R. Beerbower. 1962.
Permian vertebrates Oklahoma and Texas, and its vertebrates. Oklahoma
Geological Survey Circular, 59:1-68
(particularly pp. 21-48) [PDF]
Olson, E.C.
1962. Late Permian Terrestrial
Vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society,
52:1-196. (pp. 28-47, 200-206) [PDF]
Reisz, R. R.
2005. Oromycter, a new caseid
from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25:905-910.
[PDF]
Maddin, H. C., C.A. Sidor, and R. R. Reisz. 2008.
Cranial anatomy of Ennatosaurus
tecton (Synapsida: Caseidae) and
the evolutionary relationships of Caeseidae.
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology, 28:160-180. [PDF]
Stovall, J. W., L. I Price, and A. S. Romer. 1966.
The postcranial skeleton of the giant Permian pelyosaur Cotylorhynchus romeri. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 135:1-30.
[PDF]
Week
6 (Eupleycosauria – Varanopideae):
Olson, E.C.
1965. New vertebrates from the
Chickasha Formation in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Circular, 70:5-70. [PDF]
Langston, W., and R. R. Reisz. 1981. Aerosaurus wellesi, new species, a varanopseid mammal-like reptile
(Synapsida: Pelycosauria) from the Lower Permian of New Mexico. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1:73-96. [PDF]
Reisz, R. R., and D.
Reisz, R. R., and D. W. Dilkes. 2003. Archaeovenator hamiltonensis, a new varanopid (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) from
the Upper Carboniferous of Kansas. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 40:667-678.
[PDF]
Reisz, R. R., and M. Laurin. 2004.
A reevauation of the enigmatic Permian synapsid Watongia and its stratigraphi significance. Canadian
Journal of Earth Science, 41:377-386. [PDF]
Anderson, J. S., and R. R. Reisz. 2004. Pyzoia mesenensis, a new, small varanopseid (Synapsida:
Eupelycosauria) from Russia: “Pelycosaur” diversity in the Middle Permian. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24:173-179. [PDF]
Maddin, H. C., D.C. Evans, and R. R. Reisz. 2006.
A n Early Permian varanodontine varanopid (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria)
from the Richard’s Spur locality,
Week
7 (Eupleycosauria – Ophiacodontidae):
Romer, A.S. and L. I. Price. 1940.
Review of the Pelycosauria. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
Special Papers, 28: 1-538. (pp. 196-246 + appropriate figures in
back) [PDF]
Berman, D. S, R. R. Reisz, J. R. Bolt, and D.
Scott. 1995. The cranial anatomy and relationships of the
synapsid Varanosaurus (Eupleycosauria: Ophiacodontidae) from the Early
Permian of Texas and Oklahoma. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 64:100-133.
[PDF]
Sumida,
S. S. 1989. Reinterpretation of vertebral structure in the Early Permian
pelycosaur Varanosaurus acutirostris
(Amniota, Synapsida). Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology, 9:451-158. [PDF]
Week
8 (Eupleycosauria – Edaphosauridae):
Romer, A.S. and L. I. Price. 1940.
Review of the Pelycosauria. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
Special Papers, 28: 1-538. (pp. 366-408 + appropiriate figures in
back) [PDF]
Sumida,
S. S. 1989. New information on the pectoral girdle and vertebral column in Lupeosaurus (Reptilia, Pelycosauria). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences,
26:1343-1349. [PDF]
Reisz, R. R. and D. S Berman. 1986. Ianthasaurus hardestii n. sp., a
primitive edaphosaur (Reptilia, Pelycosauria) from the Upper Pennsylvanian Rock
Lake Shale near
Modesto, S.P. 1995. The
skull of the herbivorous synapsid Edaphosaurus boanerges from the Lower
Permian of Texas. Palaeontology,
38:213-239. [PDF]
Modesto, S.P. and R.R.
Reisz. (1990). Taxonomic status of Edaphosaurus raymondi Case. Journal
of Paleontology, 64:1049-1057. [PDF]
Modesto, S.P. and R.R.
Reisz. (1990). A new skeleton of Ianthasaurus hardestii (Synapsida:
Pelycosauria) from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas. Canadian Journal of
Earth Sciences 27:834-844. [PDF]
Week
9 (Eupleycosauria – Sphenacodontoidea – Haptodus,
Sphenacodon, Ctenorhachis)
Romer, A.S. and L. I. Price. 1940.
Review of the Pelycosauria. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
Special Papers, 28: 1-538. (pp. 283-329 + appropriate figures in
back) [PDF]
Laurin, M.
1993. Anatomy and relationships
of Haptodus garnettensis, a Pennsylvanian synapsid from Kansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
13:200-229. [PDF]
Eberth,
D. A. 1985. The skull of Spenacodon ferocior, and
comparisons with other sphenacodontines.
New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Circular,
190:1-39. [PDF]
Hook, R. W., and N. Hotton. 1991. A new sphenacodontid pelycosaur
(Synapsida) from the Wichita Group, Lower Permian of north-central Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 11::37-44. [PDF]
Week
10 (Eupleycosauria – Sphenacodontoidea – Ctenospondylus,
, Dimetrodon, Secodontosaurus):
Review:
Eberth,
D. A. 1985. The skull of Spenacodon ferocior, and comparisons
with other sphenacodontines. New
Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Circular, 190:1-39. [PDF]
Berman, D. S. 1978, Ctenospondylus
ninevehensis, a new species (Reptilia, Pelycosauria) from the Early
Permian Dunkard Group of Ohio. Annals of Carnegie Museum,
47:493-514. [PDF]
Romer, A.S. and L. I. Price. 1940.
Review of the Pelycosauria. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America
Special Papers, 28: 1-538. (pp. 329-366 + appropriate figures in
back) [PDF]
Reisz, R. R., D. S Berman, and D. Scott. 1992.
The cranial anatomy and relationships of Secodontosaurus, an unusual
mammal-like reptile (Synapsida: Sphenacodontidae) from the early Permian of
Texas. Zoological Society of the Linnean Society, 104:127-184.
[PDF]
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