Name: Equus (includes E. simplicidens and E. ferus fraternus) Epoch: Pilocene to Modern Day Years of Existence: 5 mya- present Size: 142 to 163 cm in height Directions: Using the data from Lesson One and the supplied Horse Species Range Cards create a poster display of the evolution of the modern horse as per Dr. MacFadden’s email. You have seen the fossil teeth of most of these species, but there are a few additional ones to add to the display. Evolution of the Horse Museum Display Proposal Rubric Category 1 point 3 points 5 points Score Proposal is Proposal Proposal is branching, Proposal is clearly clearly includes all but does not include all branching and phylogenetic in species from the species from the includes all the nature the study set, study set species from the but is straight study set line, orthogenic Proposal is Proposal does Proposal includes all the Proposal includes all clearly based on not take into data from lesson one but data from lesson data measured in consideration neglects to consider one and clearly lesson one all the data overlapping time of shows overlapping points from existence between times of existence lesson one species between species Proposal Epochs are Epochs are identified, Epochs are clearly timeline is either not but not clearly or indentified and accurately scaled included or are consistently scaled scaled accurately inconsistent and consistently Plant life during Plant life is not Plant life is identified in Plant life is clearly described in only some of the epochs and correctly each epoch is the display or is or is incorrectly identified in each clearly indicated incorrectly categorized in one epoch as: categorized in epoch a) Mainly two or more forests, epochs b) Forests and grasslands (not
Name: Equus (includes E. simplicidens and E. ferus fraternus) Epoch: Pilocene to Modern Day Years of Existence: 5 mya- present Size: 142 to 163 cm in height Directions: Using the data from Lesson One and the supplied Horse Species Range Cards create a poster display of the evolution of the modern horse as per Dr. MacFadden’s email. You have seen the fossil teeth of most of these species, but there are a few additional ones to add to the display. Evolution of the Horse Museum Display Proposal Rubric Category 1 point 3 points 5 points Score Proposal is clearly phylogenetic in nature Proposal includes all species from the study set, but is straight line, orthogenic Proposal is branching, but does not include all the species from the study set Proposal is clearly branching and includes all the species from the study set Proposal is clearly based on data measured in lesson one Proposal does not take into consideration all the data points from lesson one Proposal includes all the data from lesson one but neglects to consider overlapping time of existence between species Proposal includes all data from lesson one and clearly shows overlapping times of existence between species Proposal timeline is accurately scaled Epochs are either not included or are inconsistent Epochs are identified, but not clearly or consistently scaled Epochs are clearly indentified and scaled accurately and consistently Plant life during each epoch is clearly indicated as: a) Mainly forests, b) Forests and grasslands (not Plant life is not described in the display or is incorrectly categorized in two or more epochs Plant life is identified in only some of the epochs or is incorrectly categorized in one epoch Plant life is clearly and correctly identified in each epoch