Not many of the strictly littoral animals, or of those which lived on naked submarine rocks, would be embedded; and those embedded in gravel or sand would not endure to a distant epoch.

没有多少严格意义上的沿海动物或生活在裸露的海底岩石上的动物会被嵌入；那些埋在砾石或沙子里的东西不会持续到遥远的时代。