MONDAY  28 JANUARY

THE SEPARATE HOUR

ACTIVITY 5:  OTHER TETRAPODS -THE AMNIOTES.  Today you will look at the classes of animals that are united by the presence of an amnion.  Please bring your lab sheets for the Mammalia, Anapsida, the Squamata (the only extant Lepidosauromorpha), and the Archosauromorpha.  Please come prepared.  Look at the following specimens, slides, and living animals:

1. The fetal pig
2. Cat skeleton
3. Skulls of other mammals: a primate, a marsupial, an ungulate, a toothed whale.
4. A mount of different types of teeth
5. Hair
6. Turtle dissection
7. Turtle skeleton
8. Turtle skulls
9. Iguana skeleton
10. Snake skeleton
11. Living lizards and snakes
12. The Alligator skeleton and skull
13. Pigeon dissection
14. Pigeon and chicken skeletons
15. Models of Archaeopteryx and Velociraptor skulls.
16. Other dinosaur models and fossils.
17. Bird eggs

THE COMMON HOUR

GAME 2. Please come prepared with information from last week. The categories will be TAXONOMY, ANATOMY (OR STRUCTURE), PHYLOGENY (OR LIFE HISTORY).  Much of this information comes from the dialogue introductions, the on-line text, other readings by Holt, Darwin, slides, fossils, and preserved specimens from the last week of class.   We will provide you with a clean taxonomy to use in the game.  You may use nothing else.

WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY

THE SEPARATE HOUR

ACTIVITY 6: OTHER DEUTEROSTOMES, PARAZOA, AND RADIATA.  Look at the following specimens and slides of  representative Deuterostomata (aside from Craniata), Parazoa, and Radiata.  Be sure to print out copies of the guide sheets to bring with you for laboratory.

1. Sea Urchins. Preserved, fossil, and living.
2. Brittle Stars. Preserved and living.
3. Sea Stars.
4. Mogula. Preserved
5. Sea Peach. Living.
6. Tunicate Larva slide.
7. Amphioxus. Preserved, X-Sec slide.
8. Balanoglossus wm slide
9. Look at fossils of hemichordates
10. Commercial Sponges.
11. Spongilla. Living.
12. Grantia. Preserved, slides of spicules, choanocytes, and sponge sections.
13. Glass Sponge
14. Physalia. Preserved, slide of tentacle X-Sec.
15. Obelia. Slides of medusae, and hydroids.
16. Hydra. Living with buds; slides of nematocysts, ovary, and bud/sperm.
17. Cassiopea. living
18. Sea Fan. Preserved.
19. Metridium. Preserved, slide X-sec.
20. Corals, samples.
21. Comb Jelly. Preserved.

THE COMMON HOUR

DIALOGUE 6: OTHER DEUTEROSTOMES, PARAZOA, AND RADIATA. Deuterostomata (exclusive of the Craniata), Choanozoa, Parazoa, and Radiata.  You must have read the introduction to each major group, each phylum, and know the classification to class-level. Come prepared to take the quiz and begin the dialogue.  In addition, you must have read the following:

• Holt. Rivals
• Darwin. Origin, Chapter 3.

FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY

THE SEPARATE HOUR

ACTIVITY 7: PROTOSTOMATA I - THE LOPHOTROCHOZOA.  Look at the following preserved specimens, living animals, fossils, and slides of the Lophotrochozoa.  Be sure to print out copies of the guide sheets to bring with you for laboratory.

1. Ectoproct. Preserved
2. Bugula. Slide w.m.
3. Lingula. Preserved
4. Lumbricus. Preserved and living.g
5. Leeches. Preserved
6. Hirudo. Living.
7. Sea Pen. Preserved
8. Nereis. Preserved and w.m. of a parapodium.
9. Find a variety of bivalve shells.
10. Toredo. Wood infested with shipworms.
11. Chitons. Preserved.
12. Find a variety of snail shells and preserved snails.
13. Nautilus shell
14. Octopus. Preserved.
15. Loligo and/or Sepia. Preserved and wm of young animal.
16. Slide of a radula.
17. Many groups of the Lophotrochozoa are common in the fossil record.  Find a variety of different fossils and be able to identify which phylum they belong to.

THE COMMON HOUR

DIALOGUE 7: PROTOSTOMATA I - THE LOPHOTROCHOZOA.  Please come prepared for the dialogue by having read the material in the Taxa of Life. You are responsible for the descriptions (Introduction, the Synoptic Description, a general understanding of the Systematics, and the Hierarchical Classification down to the class level) of all phyla within the Lophotrochozoa.  What characters define the two subgroups?

Please make a dichotomous key that separates ten taxa that you saw in laboratory this week.  This will be due at the common hour on Monday.

JRH/CAI:  Last modified on 01/21/08