Belongs to Helicosphaera according to Theodoridis 1984
Sister taxa: 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 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:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (1 collection), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Greece (1), Indian Ocean (34), North Pacific (16)
Total: 53 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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