You're quite right about trilobiles emerging 580~ million years ago! I used to find their (gorgeous) fossils on the rock shores of Lake Ontario and was enthralled.

You're also quite right that the article Haskell wrote is focused on land-based lifeforms -- an anthropic perspective to be sure. When it comes to animal communicative noise, the ocean got there first, as it did with life in general of course. I changed the phrasing to make clear the Haskell's land-based, anthropic perspective here; thank you for pointing it out!

Also very true that industrial noise is messing quite brutally with the ocean's biophony -- something that we landbound humans too often ignore, though to be fair to Haskell, his book talks a lot about the disaster of human-made noise for ocean life.