Synonym: Helicopontosphaera Hay and Mohler 1967
Parent taxon: Haptophyta according to M. Hyzny et al. 2012
See also Jafar and Martini 1975 and Young and Bown 1997
Sister taxa: Aspidorhabdus, Camuralithus, Coccolithophyceae, Conococcolithus, Corannulus, Craspedolithus, Crassapontosphaera, Crassidiscus, Cricosphaera, Cyclolithella, Cycloperfolithus, Discoasteridae, Duplexipodorhabdus, Ellipsodiscoaster, Heliorthus, Koczyia, Leptodiscus, Lithostromationaceae, Nannocorbis, Orthozygus, Pervilithus, Phanulithus, Pyrocyclus, Reticulofenestra, Rhabdolithina, Sphenaster, Striatococcolithus, Syracosphaera, Umbilicosphaera, Vermiculithina, Wiseorhabdus
Subtaxa: Helicopontosphaera ampliaptera Helicopontosphaera bramlettei Helicopontosphaera dinesenii Helicopontosphaera granulata Helicopontosphaera heezenii Helicopontosphaera hyalina Helicopontosphaera minima Helicopontosphaera wilcoxonii Helicosphaera burkei Helicosphaera carteri Helicosphaera cateri Helicosphaera compacta Helicosphaera ethologa Helicosphaera euphratis Helicosphaera intermedia Helicosphaera lophota Helicosphaera neolophota Helicosphaera obliqua Helicosphaera orientalis Helicosphaera pacifica Helicosphaera papillata Helicosphaera parallela Helicosphaera perchnielseniae Helicosphaera reticulata Helicosphaera rhomba Helicosphaera sellii Helicosphaera seminulum Helicosphaera stalis Helicosphaera truncata Helicosphaera walbersdorfensis
Type: Coccosphaera carterii
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (116 collections), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (59), South Pacific (24)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1), South Pacific (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (10)
• C1 of North Pacific (1)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (28), North Atlantic (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (805), North Atlantic (453), North Pacific (374), South Atlantic (30), South Pacific (374)
• C2 of North Pacific (1)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (2)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (141), North Pacific (6), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (13)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (43), North Atlantic (11), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (5)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (333), Italy (1), North Atlantic (74), North Pacific (151), South Atlantic (30), South Pacific (202)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (40), North Pacific (5), South Atlantic (12), South Pacific (14)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (10)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (5), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (14)
• Neogene of South Pacific (3)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), Croatia (1), Cyprus (1), Ecuador (1), France (1), Greece (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (684), Italy (2), North Atlantic (39), North Pacific (534), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), South Atlantic (13), South Pacific (148), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1), United States (1: California)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (9), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (13), North Pacific (14), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (21), North Atlantic (86), North Pacific (99), South Pacific (28)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (1)
• NP21 of North Pacific (7)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (20), South Pacific (1)
• Eocene of Jordan (1), North Atlantic (113), North Pacific (22), South Pacific (1), Tonga (1), Ukraine (2), United States (6: California, Georgia, North Carolina)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), North Atlantic (4)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3), South Pacific (2)
• Paleogene of South Pacific (1)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 5361 collections including 8087 occurrences
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