Alternative combination: Helicosphaera bramlettei
Belongs to Helicopontosphaera according to Müller 1970
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 stalis, Helicosphaera truncata, Helicosphaera walbersdorfensis, Helicopontosphaera minima, Helicopontosphaera granulata, Helicopontosphaera hyalina, Helicopontosphaera ampliaptera, Helicopontosphaera dinesenii, Helicopontosphaera heezenii, Helicopontosphaera wilcoxonii
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (12 collections), North Atlantic (1), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (12), North Pacific (16)
• NP21 of North Pacific (7)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (4)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (29), North Pacific (3)
Total: 90 collections each including a single occurrence
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