Foraminifera - Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
Parent taxon: Globigerinacea according to A. Bertels 1970
See also Cushman 1927, Kiessling 2003 and Pessagno 1967
Sister taxa: Abathomphalidae, Globastica, Globigerapsidae, Marginotruncanidae, Planomalinidae, Shackoinidae
Subtaxa: Bolivinitinae Guembelininae Heterohelicinae Pavonininae Planoheterohelix Pseudoguembelina Rectoguembelina Spiroplectininae Woodringina Zeauvigerina
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of North Pacific (1 collection)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (5)
• NN16 of South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (1)
• NN12 of South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (2), South Pacific (1)
• NN1 of South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Iran (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Indian Ocean (1), Iran (1), Nigeria (2), North Atlantic (1), Spain (1), United States (2: California, Louisiana)
• Paleogene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (54), Indian Ocean (3), Libya (1), Peru (1), South Pacific (1), Tunisia (47), United States (9: Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Argentina (7), Benin (1), Canada (20: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (5), Colombia (3), Egypt (49), Greece (2), Indian Ocean (49), Israel (1), Italy (5), Mexico (4), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (8), North Pacific (4), Poland (6), Romania (1), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (112), the United Kingdom (65), United States (14: Texas)
Total: 508 collections including 2308 occurrences