What it all comes down for me is this:
Is there any strata location where there is direct evidence of evolution in the geologic column, or is it only inferred by the presumed or radiometrically dated age of corresponding strata around the world? Is it possible that different species are not found vertically evolved in the strata, but rather their habitats are merely regional, and do not correspond to any particular strata?
Example: Why is it that Protoceratops is found on the surface, while "earlier" dinosaurs are found deep in sediment layers? Are they really separated by geologic time, or just by region?
Make sense?
Lunkhead