biocalcifying

English

Etymology

From biocalcify +‎ -ing.

Adjective

biocalcifying (not comparable)

1. Causing biocalcification.
   • 2015 December 24, “Enigmatic Fossils from the Lower Carboniferous Shrimp Bed, Granton, Scotland”, in PLOS ONE‎, →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.