On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Chapter 11 Page 38

Bohemia and Scandinavia; nevertheless he finds a surprising amount of difference in the species. If the several formations in these regions have not been deposited during the same exact periods — a formation in one region often corresponding with a blank interval in the other — and if in both regions the species have gone on slowly changing during the accumulation of the several formations and during the long intervals of time between them; in this case the several formations in the two regions could be arranged in the same order, in accordance with the general succession of the forms of life, and the order would falsely appear to be strictly parallel; nevertheless the species would not all be the same in the apparently corresponding stages in the two regions.

4. On The Affinities Of Extinct Species To Each Other, And To Living Forms