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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Formation and composition
- Types
- Shape
- Function
- Fossil record
- References
- External links
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Coccoliths are individual plates or scales of calcium carbonate formed by coccolithophores (single-celled phytoplankton such as Emiliania huxleyi) and cover the cell surface arranged in the form of a spherical shell, called a coccosphere.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “coccolith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.