One hundred million years later, the warm, shallow seas were packed with tiny plants and animals — essentially, hors d'oeuvres for a plethora of bigger creatures like trilobites, conodonts, brachiopods, and corals.

一千万年之后，温暖的浅海充满了微小的植和动——基本上是大量大的开胃，如同三，形，腕足类和珊瑚。

We've got little seashells and things like bivalves and brachypods.

我们有小的海贝壳和双壳类、腕足类等东西。

Scientists began to realize that this pattern  of change was also replicated in other small, specialized marine creatures of the Silurian, like  the eel-like conodonts and clam-like brachiopods.

科学家开始意识到，这种变化模式也在志留纪其他小特化的海洋中重现，比如鳗鱼状的形石和蛤蜊状的腕足类。