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Further Reading Is there any type of order in the fossil record? Related Media Evolutionary Stasis -- Double-speak and Propaganda Blind fish -- evidence of de-volution Marine Fossils on Mount Everest References and notes 1. Werner, C., Living Fossils—Evolution: The Grand Experiment, vol. 2, New Leaf Press, Green Forest, AR. 2. Oard, M.J., Supposed eukaryote evolution pushed back one billion years, J. Creation 15(1):4, 2001. 3. Oard, M.J., The origin of grass pushed well back into the ¡®Mesozoic¡¯, J. Creation 21(1):9, 2007. 4. Oard, M.J., Jurassic mammals—more surprisingly diverse, J. Creation 21(2):10–11, 2007. 5. Batten, D., Pollen problems, Creation 36(2):54, 2014. 6. Oard, M.J., Fossil time ranges continue to be increased, J. Creation 28(3):3–4, 2014. 7. Wieland, C., Sensational Australian tree ¡¦ like ¡®finding a live dinosaur¡¯, Creation 17(2):13, 1995. 8. Oard, M.J., Post-Flood man continues to become smarter, J. Creation 27(3):3, 2013. 9. Caldwell, M.W., Nydam, R.L., Palci, A., and Apesteguia, S., The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution, Nature communications 6: 27, January 2015; doi:10.1038/ncomms 6996. 10. Bell, P., Standard snake evolution story stymied by spate of fossil discoveries, J. Creation 29(3):8–10, 2015. 11. Bond, M., Tejedor, M.F., Campbell Jr, K.E., Chornogubsky, L., Novo, N., and Goin, F., Eocene primates of South America and the African origin of New World monkeys, Nature 520:538–541, 2015. 12. De Queiroz, A., The Monkey¡¯s Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life, Basic Books, New York, 2014. 13. Meng, Q.-J, Ji, Q., Zhang, Y.-G., Liu, D., Grossnickle, D.M., and Luo, Z.-X., An arboreal docodont from the Jurassic and mammalianform ecological diversification, Science 347:764–768, 2015. 14. Martin, T., Marugán-Lubón, J., Vullo, R., Martin-Abad, H., Luo, Z.-X., and Buscalioni, A.D., A cretaceous eutriconodont and integument evolution in early mammals, Nature 526:380–384, 2015. 15. Siveter, D.J., Tanaka, G., Farrell, U.C., Martin, M.J., Siveter, D.J., and Briggs, D.E.G., Exceptionally preserved 450-million-year-old Ordovician ostracods with brood care, Current Biology 24:801–806, 2014. 16. Sues, H.-D. and Schoch, R.R., First record of Colognathus (?Amniota) from the Middle Triassic of Europe, J. Vertebrate Paleontology 33(4):998–1002, 2013. 17. Travouillon, K.J., Hand, S.J., Archer, M., and Black, K.H., Earliest modern bandicoot and bilby (marsupialia, peramelidae, and thylacomyidae) from the Miocene of the Riversleigh World Heritage area, northwestern Queensland, Australia, J. Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):375–382, 2014. 18. Oard, M.J., (ebook). The Flood/Post-Flood Boundary Is in the Late Cenozoic with Little Post-Flood Catastrophism, 2014; michael.oards.net/PostFloodBoundary.htm. 19. Oard, M.J., Relating the Lava Creek ash to the post-Flood boundary, J. Creation 28(1):104–113, 2014. 20. Geisler, J.H., Colbert, M.W., and Carew, J.L., A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation, Nature 508:383–386, 2014. 21. Geisler et al., ref. 20, p. 383. 22. Wang, M., Zheng, X., O¡¯Connor, J.K., Lloyd, G.T., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., and Zhou, Z., The oldest record of ornithuromorpha from the early Cretaceous of China, Nature Communications 6:6987, 2015; doi:10.1038/ncomms7987. 23. Brussatte, S.L., Niedźwiedski, G., and Butler, R.J., Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1107–1113, 2011. 24. Andres, B., Clark, J., and Xu, X., The earliest peterodactyloid and the origin of the group, Current Biology 24:1011–1016, 2014. 25. Rosen, M., Oldest flying reptile, Science News 185(11):5, 2014. 26. Mertens, K.N., Takano, Y., Head, M.J., and Matsuoka, K., Living fossils in the Indo-Pacific warm pool: a refuge for thermophilic dinoflagellates during glaciations, Geology 42(6):531–534, 2014. 27. Gordon, D., Northern-hemisphere fossil discovered living in New Zealand, niwa.co.nz/news/northern-hemisphere-fossil-discovered-living-in-new-zealand, 29 May 2014.
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