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Hercules battling the “Monster of Troy” depicted on a Greek crater dated at 550 B.C.

Hercules battling the “Monster of Troy” depicted on a Greek crater dated at 550 B.C. Early cultural perceptions of fossil remains. Siberian Pazyryk Carpet (approx. 2,350 years old). Entire carpet 6’ x 6’ detail of griffin

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Hercules battling the “Monster of Troy” depicted on a Greek crater dated at 550 B.C.

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  1. Hercules battling the “Monster of Troy” depicted on a Greek crater dated at 550 B.C. Early cultural perceptions of fossil remains

  2. Siberian Pazyryk Carpet (approx. 2,350 years old) Entire carpet 6’ x 6’ detail of griffin from border

  3. Left:Protoceratops reconstruction compared to griffinBelow:Scythian Tattoos

  4. Giraffokeryx and Sivatherium both could easily be misinterpreted as dragons

  5. Early “Fossil” Collections • Georgius Agricola – 1494-1555 - De Natura Fossilium • Conrad Gesner – 1516-1565 - De Rerum Fossilium

  6. Johannes Beringer 1726

  7. Johannes Beringer 1726

  8. Nicolaus Steno1638-1686 • Original Horizontality • Original Lateral Continuity • Superposition • (also principles of inclusion and crosscutting)

  9. Grand Canyon

  10. James Hutton (1726-1797) and the beginnings of Uniformitarianism

  11. Types of unconformities

  12. Baron Georges Leopold Cretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier1769-1832; prominent catastrophist

  13. William “Strata” Smith1769-1839: canal engineer, first stratigrapher

  14. Smith’s canals today

  15. William Smiths canals today

  16. Wm. Smith’s canals today

  17. Sir Charles Lyell1797-1875 • Championed Uniformitarianism • Darwin’s mentor • Proposed “Great Cycles” to preserve Uniformitarianism in the face of evidence of directionalism • Named Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, based on “Lyellian Curves”

  18. Why Paleontology? • Biostratigraphy • Evolutionary Theory • Paleoecology • Paleogeography • Interest

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