Geol.806               BIOSTRATIGRAPHY                                                                                                                              (3 C.H)

Index fossils, biozone and , index fossils of Pakistan, animals and plants fossils, stratigraphic distribution, age determination, correlation, sequence boundaries and their correlative conformities, applications in establishing paleoecology and paleoenvironments, collection and extraction.

• Biostratigraphy: microfossils and geological time by McGowran, B., 2005, Cambridge University Press, London.
• Recent developments in applied biostratigraphy by Powell, A. J. and Riding, J. B., 2005.
• Geological Society of London and British Micropalaeontological Society, London.
• Palaeozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy and biogeography by Long, J. A., 1994. John Hopkins   University Press, MD, USA.
• Non-marine permian biostratigraphy and biochronology by Lucas, S. G., Cassinis, G. and Schneider, J. W., 2006, Geological Society of London, London.