SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIATION OF OSTRACOD SPEC IES BELONGING TO THE GENUS ASYMMETRICYTHERE-BASSIOUNI, 1971 AND TOGOINA-APOSTOLESCU, 1961 WITH TOMOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION BY FACTORIAL ANALYSIS
G. Carbonnel et E. Grosdidier, SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIATION OF OSTRACOD SPEC IES BELONGING TO THE GENUS ASYMMETRICYTHERE-BASSIOUNI, 1971 AND TOGOINA-APOSTOLESCU, 1961 WITH TOMOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION BY FACTORIAL ANALYSIS, Bulletin des centres de recherches exploration-production Elf-Aquitaine, 17(2), 1993, pp. 443-453
The genus Asymmetricythere can be considered to be in lineal descent f
rom the genus Togoina. Among the acquired characters Asymmetricythere
shows a lateroventral fine ridge but the external outline is quite sim
ilar. A semi-quantitative analysis of the distortion of the theoretica
l ellipsoid allows the escape from subjective and literary description
s. Combined with codification of the ornamental characters, this analy
sis leads to a 3-D representation and a tomographic visualization.