Heterohelix

Heterohelix is an extinct genus of foraminifera belonging to the family Heterohelicidae of the superfamily Heterohelicoidea and the suborder Globigerinina.[1] Its type species is Heterohelix americana (formerly Textilaria americana).[2]

Heterohelix
Temporal range: Santonian - Late Paleocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Chromista
Phylum: Retaria
Infraphylum: Foraminifera
Class: Globothalamea
Order: Rotaliida
Suborder: Globigerinina
Superfamily: Heterohelicoidea
Family: Heterohelicidae
Subfamily: Heterohelicinae
Genus: Heterohelix
Ehrenberg, 1843
Species

see text

Species

Species in Heterohelix include:[1]

  • Heterohelix americana
  • Heterohelix budugensis
  • Heterohelix buliminiformis
  • Heterohelix bulloides
  • Heterohelix calabarflanki
  • Heterohelix carinata
  • Heterohelix concinna
  • Heterohelix cornuta
  • Heterohelix digitata
  • Heterohelix elongata
  • Heterohelix gradata
  • Heterohelix hohenemsensis
  • Heterohelix ilkhidagensis
  • Heterohelix irregularis
  • Heterohelix labellosa
  • Heterohelix oculis
  • Heterohelix perquadrata
  • Heterohelix praeelongata
  • Heterohelix praegradata
  • Heterohelix praeirregularis
  • Heterohelix pseudocarseyae
  • Heterohelix pseudoreussi
  • Heterohelix robusta
  • Heterohelix sphenoides
  • Heterohelix stenopos
  • Heterohelix suwalkensis
  • Heterohelix trochospiralis
  • Heterohelix varsoviensis
  • Heterohelix vistulaensis
  • subgenus Heterohelix (Heterohelix)
    • Heterohelix (Heterohelix) planeobtusa

References

  1. Heterohelix, World Foraminifera Database, accessed 27 November 2018
  2. Ehrenberg, C.G. (1843). Verbreitung und Einfluss des Mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd- und Nord-Amerika. Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften. p. 141.
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