The open-sea plants had already left behind the increasingly arid seafloor, where a prodigious number of animals were still swarming: zoophytes, articulates, mollusks, and fish.
Les plantes pélagiennes abandonnaient déjà le sol devenu aride, qu'un nombre prodigieux d'animaux, zoophytes, articulés, mollusques et poissons y pullulaient encore.