bioencrustation

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ encrustation

Noun

bioencrustation (countable and uncountable, plural bioencrustations)

1. encrustation with biological material
   • 2015 December 10, “Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whales”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     While there is no evidence of bioerosion, bioencrustation or an associated invertebrate fauna with the type specimen of Albicetus, it is not entirely clear whether such a community might be expected for a physeteroid whalefall, even at the presumed paleodepth for the type specimen's depositional environmental, since reported modern sperm whalefalls derive from experimental, emplaced carcasses [75 ].