Alternative combination: Coccosphaera carterii
Belongs to Helicosphaera according to Kamptner 1954
See also Jafar and Martini 1975
Sister taxa: Helicosphaera burkei, 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, Helicopontosphaera wilcoxonii, Helicopontosphaera heezenii, Helicopontosphaera ampliaptera, Helicopontosphaera dinesenii, Helicopontosphaera hyalina, Helicopontosphaera granulata, Helicopontosphaera bramlettei, Helicopontosphaera minima
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (92 collections), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (50), 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)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (696), North Atlantic (414), North Pacific (273), South Atlantic (6), South Pacific (322)
• C2 of North Pacific (1)
• G. miocenica HOZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (2)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (106), North Pacific (6), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (13)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (43), North Atlantic (11), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (4)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (293), Italy (1), North Atlantic (72), North Pacific (132), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (155)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (27), North Pacific (5), South Pacific (14)
• G. tumida/G. nepenthes CRZ - Atlantic of Indian Ocean (10)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (5), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (13)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (2), Cyprus (1), France (1), Greece (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (530), Italy (1), North Atlantic (29), North Pacific (412), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), South Pacific (140), Taiwan (1), United States (1: California)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (16), South Pacific (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (11), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (20), North Pacific (5), South Pacific (11)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (8), South Pacific (1)
• Cenozoic of Indian Ocean (3)
• Cretaceous of Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 4079 collections including 4251 occurrences
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