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Definition of Coccoliths

Coccolith
Coccolith Coc"co*lith, n. [Gr. ? a grain, seed + -lith.] (Biol.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Meaning of Coccoliths from wikipedia

- and not protected by coccoliths. Coccoliths are formed within the cell in vesicles derived from the golgi body. When the coccolith is complete these vesicles...
- uncertain function called coccoliths, which are also important microfossils. However, there are Prymnesiophyceae species lacking coccoliths (e.g. in genus Prymnesium)...
- phytoplankton covered with uniquely ornamented calcite disks called coccoliths. Individual coccoliths are abundant in marine sediments although complete coccospheres...
- sea. The sea bottom was covered with white mud formed from fragments of coccoliths, the skeletons of tiny algae that floated in the surface waters and sank...
- articulate brachiopods, planktonic (free-floating) foraminifera, and coccoliths. High-magnesium calcite skeletal grains are typical of benthic (bottom-dwelling)...
- carbonate deposited by the s**** of marine invertebrates, prin****lly coccoliths), found in the upper Cretaceous of Western Europe. The name Cretaceous...
- 28 December 2020. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Celtic Sea. Coccoliths in the Celtic Sea  : a bloom of phytoplankton in the Celtic Sea, visible...
- the critical advantage of EHUX coccoliths is their distinctive and sophisticated asymmetric morphology. EHUX coccoliths are characterised by several hammer-headed...
- microscopic plates, which are called coccoliths, of microscopic green algae known as coccolithop****s. In addition to the coccoliths, the fossil debris includes...
- Lenticulina, Nodosaria, Rhabdammina, Spirillina and Spirophthalmidium. Coccoliths are founded up to 250 meters below the ocean floor, the drilling area...