Meaning of small shellies | Babel Free

Definitions

Small shelly fauna.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“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.””

“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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