small shellies
English
Noun
small shellies pl (plural only)
- (paleontology) Small shelly fauna.
- 2009, Joseph Seckbach, Divine Action and Natural Selection, page 486:
- Following this is the earliest Cambrian, where large shelly invertebrates are rare (and no trilobites occur), but the commonest fossils are tiny forms nicknamed the “small shellies.”
- 2018, Mark Carnall, “Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica”, in The Guardian:
- Although difficult to interpret, small shellies may hold the key to understanding the origins of shelled and biomineralised groups of animals.
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