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New Data On Occurrences Of The Devonian Rugose Coral Calceola In Belgium, Anthony J. Wright, M Coen-Aubert, P Bultynck, A P. Van Viersen Apr 2014

New Data On Occurrences Of The Devonian Rugose Coral Calceola In Belgium, Anthony J. Wright, M Coen-Aubert, P Bultynck, A P. Van Viersen

Anthony Wright

Opercula and corallites of Calceola sandalina from the late Eifelian and early Givetian (Middle Devonian) Hanonet Formation of Belgium are illustrated. The few previous illustrations of calceoloid corals from the Devonian of Belgium did not include opercula showing the generically diagnostic morphological features, so for the first time the presence of the genus and species in Belgium is confirmed. One important corallite shows the alar septum and insertion of septa on the external surface of the counter face adjacent to the alar septum.


First Occurrence And Biogeographical Significance Of The Operculate Tetracoral Goniophyllum From The Wenlock (Silurian) Of Baillie-Hamilton Island, Canadian Arctic, Anthony J. Wright Apr 2014

First Occurrence And Biogeographical Significance Of The Operculate Tetracoral Goniophyllum From The Wenlock (Silurian) Of Baillie-Hamilton Island, Canadian Arctic, Anthony J. Wright

Anthony Wright

Opercula of the Silurian tetracoral genera Goniophyllum and Rhizophyllum are described from early Wenlock (Sheinwoodian) strata of the Cape Phillips Formation, Baillie-Hamilton Island, Canadian Arctic. This is the first record of Goniophyllum in northern Laurentia, emphasising previously recognised faunal connections of this region with Baltica and Avalonia. As the opercula of Goniophyllum belong mostly to very early juveniles, which have not previously been documented, specific identification is impossible.


Using Formative Feedback To Identify And Support First Year Chemistry Students With Missing Or Misconceptions. A Practice Report, Gwen Lawrie, Anthony Wright, Madeleine Schultz, Timothy Dargaville, Glennys O'Brien, Simon B. Bedford, Mark Williams, Roy Tasker, Hayden Dickson, Christopher Thompson Apr 2014

Using Formative Feedback To Identify And Support First Year Chemistry Students With Missing Or Misconceptions. A Practice Report, Gwen Lawrie, Anthony Wright, Madeleine Schultz, Timothy Dargaville, Glennys O'Brien, Simon B. Bedford, Mark Williams, Roy Tasker, Hayden Dickson, Christopher Thompson

Anthony Wright

Students entering tertiary studies possess a diverse range of prior experiences in their academic preparation for tertiary chemistry so academics need tools to enable them to respond to issues in diversity in conceptual models possessed by entering students. Concept inventories can be used to provide formative feedback to help students identify concepts that they need to address to improve construction of subsequent understanding enabling their learning. Modular, formative learning activities that can be administered inside or outside of class in first year chemistry courses have been developed. These activities address key missing and mis-conceptions possessed by incoming student. Engagement in …


Late Llandovery (Early Silurian) Dendroid Graptolites From The Cotton Formation Near Forbes, New South Wales, R B. Rickards, Anthony J. Wright, G Thomas Apr 2014

Late Llandovery (Early Silurian) Dendroid Graptolites From The Cotton Formation Near Forbes, New South Wales, R B. Rickards, Anthony J. Wright, G Thomas

Anthony Wright

A well-preserved dendroid graptolite fauna of Early Silurian (late Llandovery: probable turriculatus graptolite zone) age is described from the Cotton Formation near Forbes, New South Wales. A possible rhabdopleuran hemichordate is described from Australia for the fi rst time. The fauna consists of 13 taxa as follows: Dendrograptus sp. aff. D. avonleaensis, Dictyonema zalasiewiczi sp. nov., Dictyonema sp. aff. D. paululum australis, Dictyonema paululum australis, Dictyonema sp. aff. D. sp. cf. D. venustus of Bulman (?ssp. nov.), Dictyonema venustum, Dictyonema sp. cf. D. falciferum, Callograptus bridgecreekensis, Callograptus rigbyae, Callograptus sp. aff. C. ulahensis, Stelechocladia sp. cf. S. praeattenuata, Acanthograptus praedeckeri …


Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Trilobitomorpha: Trilobites, Anthony J. Wright, Roger A. Cooper Apr 2014

Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Trilobitomorpha: Trilobites, Anthony J. Wright, Roger A. Cooper

Anthony Wright

This volume is the second of three that provide a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity - an international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists and the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Together, the three volumes will list every one of the almost 55,000 known species of New Zealand's animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms. Volume 2 mostly deals with the major branch of the animal kingdom known as Ecdysozoa (moulting animals), which includes arachnids, centipedes and millipedes, crustaceans and insects. It also includes the enigmatic phylum Chaetognatha …


Martellia And Associated Middle Ordovician Brachiopods From The Katkoyeh Formation, East-Central Iran, Ian G. Percival, Anthony J. Wright, Robert S. Nicoll, Mir Alireza Hamedi Apr 2014

Martellia And Associated Middle Ordovician Brachiopods From The Katkoyeh Formation, East-Central Iran, Ian G. Percival, Anthony J. Wright, Robert S. Nicoll, Mir Alireza Hamedi

Anthony Wright

The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Ordovician if Iran has been the subject of considerable research over the past 15 years, revealing biogeographically significant faunas whose affinities are shared both with peri-Gondwanian terranes and continental blocks. Documentation of the composition and ages of these faunas, many of which are still poorly known, is critical to constraining palaeogeographic reconstructions of the time.


Septal Architecture And Palaeoecology Of Calceola (Cnidaria, Calceolidae), With Comments On The Phylogeny Of Devonian Operculate Tetracorals, Anthony J. Wright Apr 2014

Septal Architecture And Palaeoecology Of Calceola (Cnidaria, Calceolidae), With Comments On The Phylogeny Of Devonian Operculate Tetracorals, Anthony J. Wright

Anthony Wright

In Calceola sandalina the full complement of counter major septa was established very low in the calyx, extending from the counter septum across to the edge of the counter face. At about mid-height of the calyx, a counter-lateral major septum was generated on either side of and from the counter septum. Serial minor septal insertion was initiated adjacent to the counter-lateral septa at a slightly later stage and continued throughout the subsequent ontogeny of the corallite, with minor septa (schizosepta?) arising on the median side of major septa and bifurcating from them. Alar fossulae are seen in the calyx of …


Morphology And Taxonomy Of The Late Silurian Rhynchonellide Brachiopod Notoconchidium, Anthony J. Wright, Michael J. Garratt Apr 2014

Morphology And Taxonomy Of The Late Silurian Rhynchonellide Brachiopod Notoconchidium, Anthony J. Wright, Michael J. Garratt

Anthony Wright

The distinctive brachiopod genus Notoconchidium is known from late Silurian, mostly sandy, shallow marine strata in Tasmania, Victoria and New Zealand. Material from the Zeehan and Wynyard areas (Tasmania), the Whittlesea-Wallan and Heathcote areas (Victoria), and the Wangapeka River area (New Zealand), permits further insight into detailed aspects of morphology and relationships between the previously named species N. tasmaniense, N. florencense and N. thomasi. We conclude that N. thomasi is a junior synonym of N. tasmaniense, but N. florencense is retained as a separate species. New species described are N. talenti and N. argentium. The diamond-shaped septalium of Notoconchidium exhibits, …


Notes On The Early Devonian Brachiopod Leptaena Ouralensis De Verneuil, 1845, Anthony J. Wright Apr 2014

Notes On The Early Devonian Brachiopod Leptaena Ouralensis De Verneuil, 1845, Anthony J. Wright

Anthony Wright

On the basis of the type material, an attempt is made to review the widely reported brachiopod Leptaena ouralensis de Verneuil, 1845, much more commonly known as Megastrophia uralensis (de Verneuil, 1845). Assignment of this species to Megastrophia is still tentative, and many reports of the species, especially those based on crack-out material, must remain doubtful. The species has an established narrow geographic and stratigraphic range to the upper Emsian (upper Lower Devonian) of mostly Siberia, Mongolia and China.


The Asaphid Trilobite Ogygites Collingwoodensis Reed, 1926 From The Late Ordovician Of New Zealand, Anthony J. Wright Apr 2014

The Asaphid Trilobite Ogygites Collingwoodensis Reed, 1926 From The Late Ordovician Of New Zealand, Anthony J. Wright

Anthony Wright

The New Zealand asaphid trilobite Ogygites collingwoodensis is redescribed on the basis of the type material and new collections, and its assignment to Basiliella is confirmed. The species occurs with the trinucleid trilobite Incaia bishopi and graptolites indicative of the Nemagraptus gracilis zone (early Late Ordovician, early Sandbian/Gisbornian), mostly as disarticulated material in intensely bioturbated siltstone of the Douglas Formation. Comparison with coeval faunas is limited due to the low diversity of this fauna, but B. collingwoodensis shows some limited similarity to contemporaneous eastern Australian faunas, whereas Incaia also occurs in South America and South China.


Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) Conodonts From Thompson Creek, Nelson Province, New Zealand, Yong Yi Zhen, Ian G. Percival, Roger A. Cooper, John E. Simes, Anthony J. Wright Apr 2014

Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) Conodonts From Thompson Creek, Nelson Province, New Zealand, Yong Yi Zhen, Ian G. Percival, Roger A. Cooper, John E. Simes, Anthony J. Wright

Anthony Wright

A well preserved Middle Ordovician conodont fauna of 24 species has been recovered from seven samples of a small limestone lens exposed in Thompson Creek, northwest of Nelson, on the South Island of New Zealand. The presence of Histiodella holodentata, Baltoniodus? sp., Paroistodus originalis, P. horridus, Periodon macrodentatus, Protopanderodus sp. cf. P. varicostatus, Costiconus ethingtoni and Venoistodus balticus in the fauna indicates a Darriwilian (late Da2 to mid Da3) age. The occurrence of Ansella jemtlandica, Baltoniodus? sp., Periodon macrodentatus, Spinodus sp., Spinodus? sp. and Histiodella holodentata suggests a relatively deeper water (outer shelf to slope) setting, comparable with contemporaneous faunas, …


Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) Brachiopods And Trilobites From Thompson Creek, Northwest Nelson, New Zealand, Ian G. Percival, Anthony J. Wright, Roger A. Cooper, John E. Simes, Yong Yi Zhen Apr 2014

Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) Brachiopods And Trilobites From Thompson Creek, Northwest Nelson, New Zealand, Ian G. Percival, Anthony J. Wright, Roger A. Cooper, John E. Simes, Yong Yi Zhen

Anthony Wright

A well preserved Middle Ordovician shelly fauna, represented by twelve species of lingulate brachiopods and one trilobite genus, was recovered from an allochthonous limestone lens exposed in Thompson Creek, northwest of Nelson, on the South Island of New Zealand. The stratigraphic setting is unclear as the limestone is situated in the Takaka Terrane adjacent to the Anatoki Fault, separating this terrane from the Buller Terrane. The original depositional environment of the limestone is interpreted as relatively deep water (outer shelf to upper slope). Lingulate brachiopods described include the new species Hyperobolus? thompsonensis sp. nov., Cyrtonotreta robusta sp. nov., Scaphelasma paturauensis …