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Is there a good source for the quantity of genera, species, and specimen of extinct vertebrate fossils that have been found in various families? Creationists keep talking as though it is a few here and there, and I keep reminding them that it is a lot. I would like to be more specific, particularly in the horse line, the Human line, the early tetrapods, and the mammal like reptiles.
Interstingly, there's a great source from an honest YE creationist, who has summarized the difficulty that all these transitional forms present for creationism:
Toward a Creationist Understanding of Transitional Forms
Dr. Kurt Wise
Of Darwinism’s four stratomorphic intermediate expectations, that of the commonness of inter-specific stratomorphic intermediates has been the most disappointing for classical Darwinists. The current lack of any certain inter-specific stratomorphic intermediates has, of course, led to the development and increased acceptance of punctuated equilibrium theory. Evidences for Darwin’s second expectation - of stratomorphic intermediate species - include such species as Baragwanathia27 (between rhyniophytes and lycopods), Pikaia28 (between echinoderms and chordates), Purgatorius29 (between the tree shrews and the primates), and Proconsul30 (between the non-hominoid primates and the hominoids). Darwin’s third expectation - of higher-taxon stratomorphic intermediates - has been confirmed by such examples as the mammal-like reptile groups31 between the reptiles and the mammals, and the phenacdontids32 between the horses and their presumed ancestors. Darwin’s fourth expectation - of stratomorphic series - has been confirmed by such examples as the early bird series,33 the tetrapod series,34,35 the whale series,36 the various mammal series of the Cenozoic37 (for example, the horse series, the camel series, the elephant series, the pig series, the titanothere series, etc.), the Cantius and Plesiadapus primate series,38 and the hominid series.39 Evidence for not just one but for all three of the species level and above types of stratomorphic intermediates expected by macroevolutionary theory is surely strong evidence for macroevolutionary theory. Creationists therefore need to accept this fact. It certainly CANNOT said that traditional creation theory expected (predicted) any of these fossil finds.
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j09_2/j09_2_216-222.pdf
Wikipedia has a nice article with lots of references:
List of transitional fossils - Wikipedia
Frogamanders:
'Frog-amander' Fossil Fills Evolutionary Gap
Transitions from primitive anapsids to turtles:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-transitional-turtle-is-the-stuff-of-creationist-1714158371
Transitional termites:
https://www.termite-control.com/ter...-facts/the-link-between-cockroaches-termites/
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