Of course it does.
Is this part of the 'thought experiment'?
I don't recall ever reading or hearing any evolutionary biologist making such a claim. So it must be part of the 'experiment.' Unless you can provide actual examples. We can, of course, 'predict' what sorts of features we might expect to see in a particular group of organisms in a particular time frame, like the predictions about what we might see in wasp/ant ancestor, but I am personally unaware of any 'prediction' regarding a specific fossil order.
What do you mean "where"? Where as in location, or where as in time frame? Or both? If Noah's flood had actually happened, for example, I would predict, given their relative size and thus density and their general shape and thus hydrodynamic properties that we should find fossils of large modern mammals such as rhinos in the same stratum that we find juvenile triceratops in. Or modern horses and Camelops. But I digress.
Great thought experiment.
Pity that it is premised on an essentially backwards understanding of how scientific theories are developed and used.
Having extant anatomy knowledge tells us nothing about rates of change, biogeography, etc.
You fail to recognize or understand that such things do not exist in a vacuum. It is like you want us to describe the best way to win a game of chess using only the chess board and no actual knowledge of how the game pieces move. The Theory of Evolution, even in its original formulation, did not rely on a single type of knowledge. It relied on, among other things, embryology, artificial selection (as a model, of sorts), biogeography, etc.
So in reality, this is NOT a 'thought experiment' in which we take a Theory of Evolution and use it to make predictions based solely on anatomy, it is a scam - for the ToE's formulation knowledge of anatomy along with knowledge of fossils (and many other things) was used.
It would be like asking you to explain YEC cultism without referencing Noah's flood myth.
It is disingenuous.
Is this sort of thing your "mission" or something?
That is, it is a set up, and one, I think is obvious, premised on your rather shallow grasp of science - which may be a product of your past psychedelic drug use, but who knows. I will point out more flaws as time allows, but that is good for today.
Off to tell impressionable youngsters not to trust YEC fanatics.