Coccoliths are small saucer-like discs found abundantly in the Atlantic ooze, probably unicellular algæ. They are sometimes called coccolite, a word also used to denote a greenish kind of Augite (q.v.).
Coccoliths
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 317
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