| Heterohelix Temporal range: Santonian - Late Paleocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Retaria |
| Subphylum: | Foraminifera |
| Class: | Globothalamea |
| Order: | Rotaliida |
| Family: | Heterohelicidae |
| Subfamily: | †Heterohelicinae |
| Genus: | †Heterohelix Ehrenberg, 1843 |
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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, World Foraminifera Database, accessed 27 November 2018
- ^ Ehrenberg, C.G. (1843). Verbreitung und Einfluss des Mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd- und Nord-Amerika. Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften. p. 141.