small shellies

English

Noun

small shellies pl (plural only)

  1. (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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2026:
      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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