Alternative combination: Helicopontosphaera sellii
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 obliqua, Helicosphaera orientalis, Helicosphaera pacifica, Helicosphaera papillata, Helicosphaera parallela, Helicosphaera perchnielseniae, Helicosphaera reticulata, Helicosphaera rhomba, 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:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (2 collections), North Pacific (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (2)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (182), North Atlantic (95), North Pacific (82), South Atlantic (26), South Pacific (112)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (55), North Pacific (2), South Atlantic (3), South Pacific (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (7), North Pacific (10), South Pacific (2)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (95), Italy (1), North Atlantic (56), North Pacific (64), South Atlantic (30), South Pacific (90)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (20), South Atlantic (12)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (4), South Pacific (2)
• Miocene of Ecuador (1), Indian Ocean (37), North Atlantic (1), North Pacific (11), South Atlantic (11), South Pacific (1), Tanzania (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (9)
Total: 1036 collections including 1050 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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