Description: Optional introductory paleontology laboratory course designed to be taken concurrently with or following PALN 110. Laboratory exercises in dating methods, fossil preservation, rock, fossil and ecosystem identification and interpretation, stratigraphic correlation, natural selection and extinction processes, fossil collection and preparation. Field trips to depositional/ecological environments and fossil sites required. (AA: Area E5a, CSU: Area B3, UC: Area 5C) (C-ID GEOL 110L)