biocalcifying

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

biocalcify +‎ -ing

Adjective[edit]

biocalcifying (not comparable)

  1. Causing biocalcification.
    • 2015 December 24, “Enigmatic Fossils from the Lower Carboniferous Shrimp Bed, Granton, Scotland”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Such algae are usually an order of magnitude smaller (usually sub-millimetric sizes), besides, our specimens are preserved as phosphates rather than carbonates (see discussion on taphonomy); biocalcifying algae would be probably be preserved as the latter.