small shellies
noun1
Biology, History, Human sciences, Natural sciences, Paleontology, Sciences Small shelly fauna.
- 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.”2009, Joseph Seckbach, Divine Action and Natural Selection, page 486:
- Although difficult to interpret, small shellies may hold the key to understanding the origins of shelled and biomineralised groups of animals.2018, Mark Carnall, “Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica”, in The Guardian: