Thus, none of the sedimentary layers adjacent to our shores not can be considered even approximately complete fauna of the surrounding his sea, and even less of modern faunas of other seas, lying in the same latitude, and still less of the faunas of the seas, lying under very different latitudes. Organic remains entombed in the present, Daggertail shallows, not can give us almost no clue about fish, shellfish and animals mollusks, corals, entombed in the Bay of Bengal. To mention a a simple and obvious truth would be almost ridiculous if circumstances instead of forcing us to insist on it. Even stricter is the rule there where we are dealing with organisms living on land. When more numerous and sharp differences between animals and plants, peculiar to the distant from each other countries, our list these animals and plants is still the big gaps. The show has on the earth more than twenty Botanical areas occupied by groups of forms, to the fact distinct from one another, which if these forms were found in the fossil record, geologists would have found it difficult take them to the same period. As for the fauna, the Arctic different from moderate, moderate from tropical and southern moderate from Northern moderate. Moreover, even in the South temperate zone of the two areas South Africa and South America have a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks and insects. Shells and bones, lying currently at the bottom of lakes and estuaries in these various fields, positively no idea that similarity, which is commonly expect found in fossil remains of layers of the same antiquity. More close to us periods excavated in any of these areas would be very incomplete representatives of the contemporary flora and fauna of the globe.
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Thus, none of the sedimentary layers adjacent to our shores not
can be considered even approximately complete fauna of the surrounding
his sea, and even less of modern faunas of other seas, lying in the same
latitude, and still less of the faunas of the seas, lying under very different latitudes.
Organic remains entombed in the present, Daggertail shallows, not
can give us almost no clue about fish, shellfish and animals
mollusks, corals, entombed in the Bay of Bengal. To mention a
a simple and obvious truth would be almost ridiculous if circumstances
instead of forcing us to insist on it. Even stricter is the rule there
where we are dealing with organisms living on land. When more numerous
and sharp differences between animals and plants, peculiar to the distant
from each other countries, our list these animals and plants is still
the big gaps. The show has on the earth more than twenty Botanical
areas occupied by groups of forms, to the fact distinct from one another, which
if these forms were found in the fossil record, geologists would have found it difficult
take them to the same period. As for the fauna, the Arctic
different from moderate, moderate from tropical and southern moderate from
Northern moderate. Moreover, even in the South temperate zone of the two areas
South Africa and South America have a variety of mammals, birds,
reptiles, fish, mollusks and insects. Shells and bones, lying
currently at the bottom of lakes and estuaries in these various fields,
positively no idea that similarity, which is commonly expect
found in fossil remains of layers of the same antiquity. More
close to us periods excavated in any of these areas would be
very incomplete representatives of the contemporary flora and fauna of the globe.
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