No more tiny plates: It's epic, costs $ 500, feeds up to 10 and must be ordered days in advance. (canadianbusiness.com)
They are covered in tiny plates of calcium carbonate called coccoliths, which fall to the sea floor when the organism dies. (palaeontologyonline.com)
The upper part of the creature's body (artist's reconstruction at left) was a cloak of flesh covered with tiny plates of chitin that in turn sported hollow spines possibly made of chitin, the same material as the shells of modern - day shrimp. (sciencemag.org)