Course Material
- Week: 1 Introduction to fossils and their significance
- Week: 2 Fossilization, Fossilization Potential and Modes of Fossilization
- Week: 3 Trace Fossils and Ichnology and Application to Paleoenvironments
- Week: 4 Classifications of Marine Environments, Factors in Marine Environments
- Week: 5 Phylum Protozoa; Foraminifera, its Morphology, Classifications, Test Composition and Chambers Arrangements
- Week: 6 Phylum Coelenterata; Graptolites, Morphology, Classification and Uses
- Week: 7 Phylum Molluska, General Characteristics, Classification, Gastropods, Pelecypods, Cephalopods and Nautiloids and Ammonoids.
- Week: 8 Geological Significance of Molluks in Pakistan
- Midterms Examinations
- Week: 9 Phylum Brachiopoda, Classification and Uses
- Week: 10 Permo-Triassic Boundary in Pakistan
- Week: 11 Trilobites, Structure and main Skeleton, Classification.
- Week: 12 Echinoids, Regular echinoids and Irregular echinoids, Ecology and modes of life.
- Week: 13 Introduction to Paleobotany; Pollens and Spores, Morphology and Industrial Application
- Week: 14 Introduction to major invertebrate and microfossils of Pakistan
- Week: 15 Index / Guide Fossils in Pakistan and their detailed description
- Week: 16 Introduction and classification of major Vertebrates
- Chapters 17
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Mr. Abdul Hannan