Difference between revisions of "Order Gonyaulacales"

<CENTER>[[Order Gonyaulacales diagnosis|Order Gonyaulacales]]</CENTER><BR><TABLE><TD ALIGN=middle> <TR><TD COLSPAN=3 ALIGN=middle>Peridiniphycideans with a <I>[[tabulation]]</I> which accords with, or clearly derives from, a pattern in which one or both of the following arrangements occur: (a) the first <I>[[apical plate]]</I>  (1\')  or its <I>[[Homologue |homologue ]]</I>  (*1\') is asymmetrical, its <I>[[left lateral]]</I> <I>[[triple junction]]</I> being higher (i.e. more <I>[[anterior]]</I>) than the <I>[[right lateral]]</I> <I>[[triple junction]]</I>; (b) there are two to four <I>[[Fundital plate|fundital plates]]</I> - always the <I>[[posterior intercalary plate]]</I> (1p) and first <I>[[antapical plate]]</I> (1\'\'\'\') or their <I>[[Homologue|homologues]]</I> (*1p, *1\'\'\'\'), sometimes the <I>[[posterior sulcal homologue]]</I> (*ps), and possibly in rare cases also the <I>[[right sulcal homologue]]</I> (*rs) or subdivisions of these <I>[[Plate|plates]]</I>.  Among the <I>[[Fundital plate|fundital plates]]</I>, 1\'\'\'\' (or *1\'\'\'\') is almost always larger and is in a clearly more <I>[[dorsal]]</I> position than the other(s).<TR><TD><BR><TD><BR><TD><BR><TR><TD><TD ALIGN=middle>[[Image:tribrnch.gif]]<TD><TR><TD><BR><TD><BR><TD><BR><TR><TD>Numerous <I>[[Climactal plate|climactal plates]]</I>.<TD ALIGN=middle> [[Order Gonyaulacales Suborder uncertain|UNCERTAINS]]<TD>Few <I>[[Climactal plate|climactal plates]]</I>.<TR><TD> [[Order Gonyaulacales part 3|MORE]]<TD><TD> [[Order Gonyaulacales part 1|MORE]]<TR><TD>[[Image:branch.gif|Order Gonyaulacales part 3]]<TD><TD>[[Image:branch.gif|Order Gonyaulacales part 3]]</TABLE><BR>