1. Introduction and geological periods
2. Early views of fossils
3. Strata and stratigraphy
4. Point bars and meandering rivers
5. Classification
6a. Precambrian life: Archaean to Proterozoic
6b: Precambrian life: Late Proterozoic
7. The Phylum Chordata
8. Jawless fish (superclass Agnatha)
9. Placoderms to bony fish
10. Lobe-finned fish
11. Tetrapods
12a. Amphibians 1: Temnospondyls
12b. Amphibians 2: Reptiliomorphs
13. Sauropsid Reptiles
14. Synapsids: Pelycosaurs to Therapsids
15a. Middle and Late Permian Therapsids 1: South Africa
15b. Gorgonopsians: Mammal-like Reptiles
16aa. Middle and Late Permian Therapsids 2: Russia
18a. Permian extinction; Triassic Dicynodonts: South Africa
18ab. Triassic Synapsids: China and India
18b. Cynodonts to Mammaliformes
19. Mesozoic reptiles: Jurassic
20. Mesozoic Mammals 1