Alternative combination: Helicopontosphaera obliqua
Belongs to Helicosphaera according to S. A. Jafar and E. Martini 1975
Sister taxa: Helicosphaera burkei, Helicosphaera carteri, Helicosphaera cateri, Helicosphaera compacta, Helicosphaera ethologa, Helicosphaera euphratis, Helicosphaera intermedia, Helicosphaera lophota, Helicosphaera neolophota, 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 bramlettei, Helicopontosphaera ampliaptera, Helicopontosphaera wilcoxonii, Helicopontosphaera hyalina, Helicopontosphaera granulata, Helicopontosphaera minima, Helicopontosphaera dinesenii, Helicopontosphaera heezenii
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (38 collections), North Pacific (8)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (2)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (5), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (2)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Pacific (1)
• Eocene of North Pacific (1)
Total: 59 collections each including a single occurrence
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