Claud William Wright

Claud William Wright (1917–2010), British civil servant and palaeontologist. Brother of Edward Vere Wright (1918–2001).

Standard Abbreviation: Wright

Taxon names authored

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2 taxon names authored by Claud William Wright

Eponyms

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Publications

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1949

Wright, C.W. & Wright, E.V. 1949. The Cretaceous ammonite genera Discohoplites Spath and Hyphoplites Spath. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 104: 477–498, fig. 1, pl. 28–32.

1951

Wright, C.W. & Wright, E.V. 1951. A survey of the fossil Cephalopoda of the Chalk of Great Britain. Palaeontographical Society. London. 40 p.

1952

Wright, C.W. 1952. A classification of the Cretaceous ammonites. Journal of Paleontology 26: 213–222, fig. 1–2.

1953

Wright, C.W. 1953. Notes on Cretaceous ammonites. I. Scaphitidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History(12) 6: 473–476.

1954

Wright, C.W. & Matsumoto, T. 1954. Some doubtful Cretaceous ammonite genera from Japan and Saghalien. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyūsyū University. Series D, Geology 4: 107–134, fig. 1–22, pl. 7–8. Reference page.

1955

Wright, C.W. 1955. Notes on Cretaceous ammonites. II. The phylogeny of the Desmocerataceae and the Hoplitaceae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 8: 561–575.

1956

Wright, C.W. 1956. Notes on Cretaceous ammonites. III. Utaturiceras gen. nov. and the Metoicoceratinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 9: 391–393.
Wright, C.W. 1956. Rectification of nomenclature—Raspailiceras nom. nov. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 1535: 73–74.

1957

Wright, C.W. 1957. Some Cretaceous ammonites from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 84: 805–809, pl. 54–55.

1963

Wright, C.W. 1963. Cretaceous ammonites from Bathurst Island, Northern Australia. Palaeontology 6: 597–614, fig. 1–3, pl. 81–89.

1966

Spencer, W.K. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Asterozoans. pp. U4–U107. In: Moore, R.C. ed. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U, Echinodermata 3, vol. 1. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press. Reference page.
Matsumoto, T. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Collignoniceras Breitroffer, 1947 (Mollusca, Ammonidea): application to place on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology with Priority from 1876. Z.N. (S). 1738. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 23: 57–59. Reference page.

1975

Wright, C.W. 1975. The Hauterivian ammonite genus Lyticoceras Hyatt, 1900 and its synonym Endemoceras Thiermann, 1963. Palaeontology 18: 607–611, pl.71. PDF.

1978

Wright, C.W. & Kennedy, W.J. 1978. The ammonite Stoliczkaia from the Cenomanian of England andnorthern France. Palaeontology 21: 393–409, fig. 1–4, pl. 36–39. Reference page.

1979

Wright, C.W. 1979. The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 31: 281–332, fig. 1–2, pl. 1–7.
Wright, C.W. & Kennedy, W.J. 1979. Origin and evolution of the Cretaceous micromorph ammonite family Flickiidae. Palaeontology 22: 685–704, fig. 1–3, pl. 87–89. Reference page.

1980

Wright, C.W. & Kennedy, W.J. 1980. Origin, evolution and systematics of the dwarf Acanthoceratid Protacanthoceras Spath, 1923 (Cretaceous Ammonoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 34: 65–108, fig. 1–61. Reference page.

1981

Wright, C.W. 1981. Cretaceous Ammonoidea, 157–174, fig. 1–4. In. M. R. House and J. R. Senior, eds., The Ammonoidea. Systematics Association Special Volume 18. Academic Press. New York.
Wright, C.W. & Kennedy, W.J. 1981. The Ammonoidea of the Plenus Marls and the Middle Chalk. Palaeontographical Society. London. 148 p., 39 fig., 32 pl. Reference page.

1984

Wright, C.W. & Kennedy, W.J. 1984. The Ammonoidea of the Lower Chalk, part 1. Palaeontographical Society. London. 126 p., 28 fig., 40 pl. Reference page.

1987

Kennedy, W.J., Wright, C.W. & Hancock, J.M. 1987. Basal turonian ammonites from west Texas. Palaeontology 30(1-2): 27–74. BHL Reference page.

1990

Smith, A.B. & Wright, C.W. 1990. British Cretaceous echinoids. Part 2, Echinothurioida, Diadematoida and Stirodonta (1, Calycina). Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 143(583): 101–202. DOI: 10.1080/25761900.2022.12131767 Reference page.

1996

Wright, C.W., Callomon, J.H. & Howarth, M.K. 1996. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4 (Revised) vol. 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO; 362 pp. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5285 Full text. Reference page.

References

Westermann, G.E.G. 1968. Directory of Palaeontologists of the World (excl. Soviet Union & continental China) (2 ed.). Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University. 250pp. Online. Reference page.
Kennedy, W.J. 2006. C. W. Wright: a most professional amateur. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 117(1): 9–40. DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(06)80028-3 Reference page.