Additional topics that will be woven into the lecture materials

• IU Collections – Management and curatorial issues
• Introduction to macroinvertebrate phyla
• Morphology, ultrastructure and taphonomy of fossil shells: Testing the fidelity of the fossil record
• Classification and comparative functional morphology: Bivalvia and Brachiopoda
• Paleoecology, as exemplified by corals and encrusters
• Biologic and ecologic advantages of coloniality
• Mobility of invertebrates: functional morphology of arthropods and echinoderms