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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• 0 eponyms of Claud William Wright

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.