“古生物地史学”是地质科学三大主要分支之一的地球历史科学的主要内容,是地质大学科的重要基础课程,对于学生的高年级专业课学习、考研深造或者工作,都具有重要意义。“古生物地史学”中有很多相近的概念或易混淆的知识点,本文系统探讨了作为本课程的主要教学方法——比较教学法的实施方案,并全面审视了其教学效果。 “History of Paleontology ” is one of the three major branches of geosciences, the main content of the earth history science, is an important basic course of Geology University, which is of great significance to the students’ higher grade major courses learning, postgraduate research or postgraduate work. . There are many similar concepts or confusing knowledge points in the history of paleontology. This paper systematically explores the implementation of the comparative teaching method, which is the main teaching method of this course, and examines its teaching effect comprehensively.