GONIAT User`s Guide
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1. a list with possible entries in a new window Select an appropriate with the mouse and use Drag amp Drop to move the selected record out of the selection window onto the underlying form Chapter 4 Editing a record 9 Editing a record Catego Name Suu Agoniatitina II Suborder Anarcestina Suborder Gephuroceratina Suborder Goniatitina Suborder Gonioclymeniina Suborder Dtoceratina Suborder Paraceltitina Suborder Pharciceratina Suborder Prolecanitina Suborder Tormoceratina Suborder unrecognized Superfamily Adrianitoidea Superfamily Agoniatitoidea Superfamily Anarcestoidea Superfamily Auguritoidea Superfamily Beloceratoidea Superfamily Biloclymenioidea Superfamily Clymenioidea _ Superfamil Cycloloboidea i Superfamily Cyrtoclymenioidea Superfamily Dimeroceratoidea Superfamily Dimorphoceratoidea Superfamily Gastrioceratoidea _ Superfamily Gephuroceratoidea Superfamily Goniatitoidea 4 Once the mouse reaches the form area the selection list is closed automatically and gives access to the whole form Now you can move the mouse to the appropriate reference field and drop the selected record onto the field The field contents will be updated with the new content Chapter 4 Editing a record Editing a record 4 TaxNo Suborder Gephuroceratina Supe2. that are not properly related through their Superior category associations Chapter 5 Creating a taxon record 14 15 Creating a taxon record 5 A valid structure with proper associations from a taxon record may look like this Suborder Goniatitina Taxon record Superior category Suborder uperior category Superfamily Subfamily Family Subfamily Genus i Subgenus Nomspecies Species schmidtianus Species text field Qualifier Options fields Pictures numeric field denoting the number of available figures which are connected to this record The program can handle up to 3 pictures which are accessible through the toolbar on the bottom of the form window The actual pictures are added by placing the in the folder Bitmap within the GONIAT folder The bitmap file name must be TAXn BMP where n is the TaxNo The GONIAT program currently only supports the BMP bitmap format Author an association field relating to an Author record Pages text field for adding year and pages information for the reference publication from the original author Lower boundary upper boundary association fields connecting to records from the Boundaries table Prerequisites Since a taxon record refers a number of records from other tables it might be necessary to set up these records beforehand Namely these records are Category records an Author record and Boundary records In many cases however the required recor
3. 1913 Manticoceras genundewah Frech p 25 1914 Gephyroceras genundewah Luther p 23 1934 Manticoceras Probeloceras genundewah Chadwick 350 1935 Manticoceras ah Chadwick p 311 a A Ble mdin cn ALIA ULI Barere Ls Dhien AN IANN Ee A OF EEE The buttons can also be double clicked In this case a new window is opened to show the information 5 Chapter 2 Overview Overview a File Edit Note Options Window Help zi 5 Ey uu i Gephyroceras Genundewah Clarke p 53 Maa Probeloceras waz 86 pS fig 1 3 Gephyroceras Clarke p 1899 Gephyroceras Probeloceras Genundewah Clarke 86 pl 8 fig 1 3 1903 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke amp Ruedemann p 588 1904 Gephyroceras genundewah Clarke amp Luther p 59 1904 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke 359 1905 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke 359 1913 Manticoceras genundewah Frech p 25 1914 Gephyroceras genundewah Luther p 23 1934 Manticoceras Probeloceras genundewah Chadwick 350 1935 Manticoceras genundewah Chadwick p 311 1938 Manticoceras genundewah Miller p 88 pl 20 fig 1 4 genundewa Kirchgasser p 77 pl 2 fig 1 6 pl 3 fig 3 4 12 13 textfig 7B 8B 9A F 2002 Acanthoclymenia genundewa Dzik Fig S0 F 56 A B lies a ma Lt age ttt Where a button with three dots is shown next to a field the field is a reference to another record and shows information
4. 68 00 Roadian Wordian Murgabian ROA W 265 80_ Wordian Capitanian Midian w ss 268 00 Roadian Wordian Murgabian R0A w1 265 80 Wordian Capitanian Midian w ss_ 268 00 Roadian Wordian Murgabian ROA WL 265 80 Wardian Capitanian bese 4 gt B conaT 1211 2004 The buttons at the bottom of the record window allow access to additional information such as the memo field images and associations with other records The view the information click on the corresponding button The window expands downwards to show the information Chapter 2 Overview Overview 2 TaxNo 1 330 Rec dko 25 8 90 Nomspecies JE Species Qualifier ss gt Author 1880 8 Lower boundary Boundary UNY Genundewa base 16 17 Mill years 383 30 Upper boundary Boundary UNY Genundewa Middlesex 17 18 Mill years 382 70 A 1879 Gephyroceras Genundewah Clarke p 53 4 1896 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundew Clarke 36 pl 8 fig 1 3 1897 Gephyroceras ceryceum Clarke p 53 1898 Gephyroceras Genundewah Clarke p 53 1898 Gephyroceras ceryceum Clarke p 53 1899 Gephyroceras Probeloceras Genundewah Clarke 36 pl 8 fig 1 3 1903 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke amp Ruedemann p 588 1904 Gephyroceras genundewah Clarke amp Luther p 59 1904 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke 359 1905 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke 359
5. E UD1F P luth P alveolatus 02 30 377 50 UD1 UD1J tripart N paradoxun timanicum UD1B UD1C stylioph T kayserl 01 70 381 60 UD1D UD1E S syngon P luther UD1B UD1C stylioph T kayserl 01 70 381 60 UD1D UD1E S syngon P luther alveolatus UD1E UD1F P luth P alveolatus 02 30 377 50 UD1 UD1J tripart N paradoxurr Prochorites UD1E UD1F P luth P alveolatus 02 30 377 50 UD1I UD1J tripart N paradoxunr low Tournais mid Tourais Tn1 Tn2 363 00 mid T ournais up Tournaisian Tr UMI Marshall Sdst base 318 10 RUS Nm1c2 Nm2a1 Homoc Ht U Atokan Desmoinesian ATO DES 299 00 U Virgilian Asselian C P Kungurian Leonardian Roadian KUN R 268 00 Roadian Wordian Murgabian F Moscovian Kasimovian MOS KAS 258 00 RIT Amarassi beds top TAP Kochusu Fm base 265 80 Wordian Capitanian Midian WC Sakmarian Artinskian SAK ART 258 00 RIT Amarassi beds top Moscovian Kasimovian MOS KAS 263 00 lower Capitanian upper Capitanie Roadian Wordian Murgabian ROA W 265 80 Wordian Capitanian Midian WC Adrianites 00 Roadian Wordian Murgabian ROA W 265 80 Wordian Capitanian Midian WC Adrianitidae Adrianites Roadian Wordian Murgabian R0A W 265 80 _ Wordian Capitanian Midian WC _ gt The table to the right of the tree view shows all records in that table After clicking a row in t
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7. ds will already exist in the database In this case the existing records are used for the associations As a general rule before adding a taxon record one should check the database for the required Category Author and Boundary records If any of those are missing they need to be created first Categories The records in the Categories table represent the levels within the taxonomical hierarchy and are set up in a hierarchical fashion Each record refers to its parent in the hierarchy so that they build a tree structure which corresponds to the taxonomical hierarchy Chapter 5 Creating a taxon record Creating a taxon record 5 Suborder Goniatitina uperior category Superior category gt It is up to the user to take care of the consistency of this structure i e the system will not check if category types are valid etc Author Adding an author record is straight forward Go to the authors table press New Record and fill first and last name field Finally press the Save Record button Make sure that each author is stored only once in the database To facilitate multiple authors in the Author field of a taxon record one may enter multiple last names in the the corresponding field e g Archiac_ amp _Verneuil or Bartzsch et al Use underscore characters in place of white spaces This form of multiple author was necessary to work around a flaw in the data model where there is only an author reference allowed for taxa reco
8. elementec Software amp Consulting Dr Peter Kullmann User s Guide GONIAT 2011 Peter Kullmann Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 oO N N 11 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 20 21 22 Introduction Overview Customizing GONIAT Editing a record Editing a note Editing associations Creating a taxon record Prerequisites Adding a note Adding figures Adding associations Creating a literature record Creating a locality record Searching Creating selection lists Printing Introduction 1 This manual describes the GONIAT desktop program version 3 5 1 The installation package can be downloaded from http www goniat org goniat_desktop html After downloading extract the installation archive to a local folder Start the installation by executing Setup exe The installation program sets up GONIAT on your computer After installation you may safely delete the installation files 1 Chapter1 Introduction Overview 2 The GONIAT data stored in a database composed of a number of tables each containing records of a specific kind The most prominent tables contain taxa data publications data and layers data To represent the hierarchical nature of taxonomic as well as geographic information records in the tables Categories for taxa and Localities for layers represent the different levels within those hierarchies Some compl
9. ementary information is stored in the tables Authors and Boundaries Taxa records and Layers records reference records in the other tables and combine them to a complete data set The database also allows for cross references between some types of records Basically there are three such associations namely between taxa and publications between taxa and layers and between publications and layers If GONIAT is started the GONIAT main window is shown JAA a The program window contains a menu bar and a toolbar at the top The center area initially shows a window with the database structure To view a list of records within a table click on the table name in the tree view Chapter 2 Overview 2 Overview 2 D cour N a z File Edit Options Window Help 54 a 3958 ian A base 76 50 Acanthoclymenia neapolitana Lower Cashagua 18 1 381 60 Acanthoclymenia genundewa aff DER do one beta base 376 90 Acanthoclymenia genundewa 1 30 UNY Genundewa base 16 17 382 70 UNY Genundewa Middlesex 17 Acanthoclymenia planorbis 50 DER do one beta do one gamma 376 90 UD1J UD1K paradox A varicos Acanthoclymenia _forcipifer 1 70 DER do one beta base 376 90 UD1J UD1K paradox A varicos Acanthoclymenia UNY Genundewa base 16 17 376 90 UD1J UD1K paradox A vaticos Acanthoclymenia n sp juv 69 UD1G UD1H kayseri B tenuistr 03 10 377 50 UD1I UD1J tripart N paradoxunr UD1
10. esex 17 18 Mill years 382 70 E 1879 Gephyroceras Genundewah Clarke p 53 1896 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundew Clarke 36 pl 8 fig 1 3 1897 Gephyroceras ceryceum Clarke p 53 1898 Gephyroceras Genundewah Clarke p 53 1898 Gephyroceras ceryceum Clarke p 53 1899 Gephyroceras Probeloceras Genundewah Clarke 36 pl 8 fig 1 3 1903 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke amp Ruedemann p 588 1904 Gephyroceras genundewah Clarke amp Luther p 59 1904 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke 359 1905 Gephyroceras Probeloceras genundewah Clarke 359 1913 Manticoceras genundewah Frech p 25 1914 Gephyroceras genundewah Luther p 23 1934 Manticoceras Probeloceras genundewah Chadwick 350 1935 Manti as genundewah Chadwick p 311 ADNAN Analia memre tase ee LO hee OM AIAN EnA eg Then press the Edit button on the tool bar at the top of the program window The program switches to BL edit mode and allows to edit the note text When finished press the Save button to save the modified note to the database Editing associations To edit associations of a record first open the associations window by pressing the appropriate button at the bottom of the form window OnE Here the buttons for the associations to publications and layers from the Taxon record window are shown If the publications button is pressed a list with existing associations i
11. family E ss at ee a dei aii arcen Genus Acanthoclymenia E Subgenus E 0 ge 383 30 UNY Genundewa base 16 17 376 90 UD1J UD1K paradox A varico j of _ 378 70 UD1G UD1H kayseri B tenuistr 03 10 377 50 _ UD11 UD1J tripart N paradoxu Nomspecies E o 381 10 UD1E UD1F P luth P alveolatus 02 30 377 50_ UD11 UD13 tripart N paradoxu 3 1 ss 383 30 UD1B UD1C stylioph T kayserl 01 70 381 60 UD1D UD1E S syngon P luthe Boece foroipifer ma ss gt 383 30 UDIB UDICsyhoph T kayee 0T 70 381 50 UDID UDTE S syngon P hte ss 1381 10 UD1E UD1F P luth P alveolatus 02 30 377 50 UD1I UD1V tripart N paradoxu Author Sandberger 4 Sandb E 5181 3 381 10 UD1E UD1F P luth P alveolatus 02 30 377 50 UD1I UD1J tripart N paradoxu fy 357 50 low Toumais mid Tournais Tn1 Tn2 _ 353 00 mid Tournais up Tournaisian T kamanda WA AA AAA UA He S Desmoinesian za A Mr IN ASSt at Body DER do one beta base Mill years 378 70 fs 270 60 Kungurian Leonardian Roadian KUN A 268 00 Roadian Wordian Murgabian fa 306 50 Moscovian Kasimovian IMOS KAS 258 00 RIT Amarassi beds top Upper boundary O fp 270 60 TAP Kochusu Fm base 285 80 Wordian Capitanian Midian w Sanday UD1J UD1K paradox A varicosum 04 85 Mill years 376 90 1 5 fs_ 284 40 Sakmarian Artinskian ISAK ART 258 00 RIT Amarassi beds top fy 306 50 Moscovian Kasimovian MOS KAS 263 00 lower Capitanian upper Capitani 7 fs_ 2
12. from that record In above example the field Suborder Superfamily Family Subfamily etc each reference a record from the Categories table When the button is clicked the referenced record is opened in a new window s ovantnociymenidae Ta Genus Acanrechmenia E So a Superior category Category F amily Name Acanthoclymeniidae a Category Genus Name Acanthoclymenia Chapter 2 Overview 6 7 Customizing GONIAT 3 Customization options are available in the Options menu p rm Options Wind With the Toolbars menu item the appearance of tool bar buttons can be adapted such that a text is displayed instead of icons or in combination with the tool icons File Edit Form Options Window Help Lest T Goniat Taxonomy Taxa File Edit Form Options Window Help TE Goniat Taxonomy Taxa Chapter 3 Customizing GONIAT Editing a record 4 When a record window has been opened its field are locked by default This is to prevent accidental modifications To allow modifications to record field press the Edit button on the tool bar Fields are then unlocked for editing Text and number field can be directly written into Options fields can be changed by pressing the arrow button next to the field which will open a drop down menu with available choices Family Acanthoclymenidae 5u Genus Acanthoclymenia Sut Yomspecies This will open
13. he table the status bar shows the number of records within the table Table columns can be resized and reordered To resize a column move the mouse to the space between two column headers where the mouse pointer changes its shape Then use Drag amp Drop to resize the column To reorder the columns click inside a column header and move to the desired position in the table using Drag amp Drop gt Tables are always automatically sorted according to the two left most columns To change the sort order just place the desired columns at the very left of the table To open a record for viewing double click on the corresponding table row This will open a new window containing the record details 3 Chapter 2 Overview Overview S pOu LMili L Bounda UMili U Bounda z fa 385 80 AUW Frasnian A base 376 90 _UD1J UD1K paradox A varico TasNo 1 114 Rec dko 20 7 90 ss 1382 10 UNY Middlesex Lower Cashagua 18 1 381 60 UNY Lower Upper Cashagua 1 af 1378 70 DER do one beta base 376 90 UD1J UD1K paradox A varico Suborder Gephuroceratina E Supettamily Beloceratoidea B ss_ 383 30 UNY Genundewa base 16 17 382 70 UNY Genundewa Middlesex 1 Family Acanthoclymenidae A Sub
14. ist as described before in connection with reference fields Analogously a record can be dragged from the selection list into the association list When the record is dropped the association is immediately added to the database To delete a selected record from the associations list use the menu item Delete records from the context menu A message will show up which lets you confirm the deletion ir cancel the operation Chapter 4 Editing a record Creating a taxon record 5 Before creating a new taxon record be sure to set up required records in other tables as described in section Prerequisites Once the necessary data for categories author and boundaries has been added a new taxon record is added by pressing the button New Record while viewing the Taxa table This will open an empty taxon form window A Taxon O x TaxNo 1 000 000 Rec Suborder Superfamily Family Subfamily Genus Subgenus Nomspecies Species Qualifier gt Pictures fo Author Valid Lower boundary Boundary Mill years Upper boundary Boundary Mill years IOS While some of the fields can be freely edited TaxNo Rec Species Qualifier Pictures Pages right of Author Valid others are association fields with a button next to it By pressing the button a selection window with possible entries is opened from where a specific reco
15. rd can be selected by dragging it on the appropriate form field Note that if the form field is covered by the selection window you may simply drag the selected record out of the selection window which will close the selection window and give free access to the underlying form For more information on association fields refer to section Editing associations TaxNo a unique record number To see all used record numbers change the sort order of the Taxa table to TaxNo by dragging the column to the very left of the table You can determine the next free Taxno by moving to the bottom of the table Rec intials and date of the editing person in the format xxx dd mm yy where xxx are the initial of the editor jku Jurgen Kullmann dko Dieter Korn Unfortunately this field has not been used consistently Suborder Superfamily Family Subfamily Genus Subgenus Nomspecies associated Category records Obviously not all of these fields have to be filled Also it is possible to create taxon records which are contain the detail description any of the categories in the hierarchy by associating the categories just down a certain level gt The user has to make sure that the category fields are filled consistently with respect to the category structure see Prerequisites The program does not do any consistency checking here The user has to take care not to associate wrong category types and categories
16. rds where it should have been an association with a literature record Boundaries The structure of boundary records is also quite simple They consist of three text fields and a numeric fields containing the age in million years Adding a note Refer to Editing a note to see how a note is added to a record Chapter 5 Creating a taxon record 16 17 Creating a taxon record 5 Adding figures To add figures to a record is a two step process 1 Set the Pictures field to the number of available bitmap files 2 Place the bitmap files in the folder Bitmap Their names must follow the naming convention for figures which means that the file name is made up of TAX and the TaxNo If there is more than one bitmap file for a specific record a letter is added to the name for all following files starting with A Example TAX100 BMP TAX100A BMP TAX100B BMP Currently a maximum of three bitmap files per record is supported Adding associations Taxon records can have an arbitrary number of associations with literature and locality records To be able to set up these associations it is necessary to create the literature and localities records beforehand When the records to be associated to each other exist in the database it makes no difference which of the two records is used to set up the association This means the an association e g between a taxon record and a literature record can either be set up in the literature list of the
17. rfamily Beloceratoidea 5 Family Acanthoclymeniidae Subfamily 0 Genus Acanthoclymenia Subgenus 0 Nomspecies Species genundewa Qualifier Pictures o Author Clarke 1899 p 86 Lower ain Boundary UNY Genundewa base UNY Genundewabase 16 17 17 Mill years 383 30 30 CEMIS Beare boundary Boundary UNY Genundewa Middlesex 17 18 Mill years 38270 n 2 0 E Note that the program does not necessarily enforce that a the reference selection is meaningful It is up to the user to select an appropriate record from the selection list In above example the user has to make sure that records of the corresponding categories are selected in to the fields PR BA Once your are finished with your modifications press the Save button E3 to save the changes to the database Editing a note To edit a note first open the note to be edited by clicking the Note button M at the bottom of the form window The window will expand downwards and display the note Chapter 4 Editing a record 10 11 Editing a record 4 TaxNo 1 330 Rec dko 25 8 90 Subode ephucceaina E Supetar Baoonaaies JI Fair forthensis E sutton i Genus oantoane E seene Nomspecies B Species Qualifier ss mepe Be j Lower boundary Boundary UNY Genundewa base 16 17 Mill years 383 30 j Upper boundary Boundary UNY Genundewa Middl
18. s shown in the expanded window Chapter 4 Editing a record Editing a record 4 a TaxNo 1 330 Rec dko 25 8 90 Nomspecies Species Qualifier ss me E 1B Lower boundary Boundary UNY Genundewa base 16 17 Mill years 383 30 oj Upper boundary awa O Ayu 7 Boundary UNY Genundewa Middlesex 17 18 Mill years 382 70 0 E l Dzik 2002 Emergence and collapse of the Fras House 1962 Observations on the ammonoid succ Kirchgasser 1975 Revision of Probeloceras Clarke 18 1938 Devonian ammonoids of America You can now add new associations are delete existing associations To add an association either press the New Record button on the top toolbar or press the right mouse button inside the list Chapter 4 Editing a record 12 13 Editing a record 4 TaxNo Rec Suborder Gephucceina E Steen Boece E Fam canfochmenidoe E swew E Genus cantocmens E swns Nomspecies B Species Qualifier s z put Cake a j Lower boundary Boundary UNY Genundewa base 16 17 Mill years 383 30 Upper boundary Sanday NY Gerurdeno Midde 7B Mi years E270 E oa 0 E E L Last Name New record Kirchgasser Miller Edit record Copy records AA Cs D let records Select record Unselect all Layout gt In the menu select New record This will open a selection l
19. taxon record or the taxa list of the literature record Refer to Editing associations to see how an association is added to a record Chapter 5 Creating a taxon record Creating a literature record To be completed Chapter 6 Creating a literature record 19 Creating a locality record To be completed Chapter 7 Creating a locality record 7 Searching To be completed Chapter 8 Searching 20 21 Creating selection lists To be completed Chapter 9 Creating selection lists 9 Printing To be completed Chapter 10 Printing 10 22 2011 Peter Kullmann All rights reserved Product and company names mentioned in this manual may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Mention of third party products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation The author assumes no responsibility w ith regard to the performance or use of these products All understandings agreements or warranties if any take place directly betw een the vendors and the prospective users Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate The author is not responsible for printing or clerical errors The product described in this manual incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of certain U S patents and other intellectual property rights This user manual w as
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