Alternative combinations: Helicopontosphaera recta, Helicosphaera recta
Belongs to Helicosphaera seminulum according to Haq 1966
Sister taxa: Helicosphaera seminulum lophota, Helicosphaera seminulum seminulum
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Atlantic (1 collection), South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of North Atlantic (3)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (23), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (9), South Pacific (1)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (6), North Pacific (2), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (10), North Atlantic (51), North Pacific (12), South Pacific (17)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (3)
Total: 148 collections each including a single occurrence