Sentences with phrase «possessing calcium carbonate shells»

Comparable groups not possessing calcium carbonate shells were less severely affected, raising the possibility that ocean acidification, as a side - effect of the collision, might have been responsible for the apparent selectivity of the extinctions.

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The fossils are remarkably well preserved and reveal that the species possessed a rigid skeleton made of calcium carbonate — a hard material from which the shells of marine animals are made.
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