Talk:List of transitional fossils

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Is it just me or does this list seem very short? They've found more transitions than this, right? -StarManta —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.74.76.214 (talk) 05:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I would like to see transitional fossils that make up a complete species. Seems a far reach taking fossils and building a case as a transitional fossil when in fact it is not the complete species. Briboy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.8.114.37 (talk) 12:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Complete Revamping

This page is in great need of additions and reformatting to make it a lot nicer looking. I have come with a proposal for a complete revamping of this page.

  1. Cut out the limit to vertebrate evolutionary chains.
  2. Open the content range to include all evolutionary series at any taxonomic level.
  3. Use of tables to display the series.
The Primitive taxon → Derived taxon Evolutionary Series
Taxa Relationship Status Description Image
  • Taxon rank: Taxon name
 Scientific consensus on this organism's spot in the chain.

List the reasons scientists suspect it to have the relationships its alleged to.

 An image of this transitional organism would go here.


Crappy hypothetical chart:


The Fish → Amphibians Evolutionary Series
Taxa Relationship Status Description Image
  • Genus: Lobefinichthys
 Widely accepted.
  • Lobefinichthys is a fish with amphibian characters:
  1. Its pectoral fins are attached to fleshy lobes that contain precursors to the bones of the tetrapod limb.
  2. Its skull is, uh, kinda frog-like?
  • Descendant of Lobefinichthys-like animal.
  • Transitional to Amphibia
 Disputed.
  • Tiktaalik is a fish with amphibian characters:
  1. Its pectoral fins are attached to fleshy lobes that contain precursors to the bones of the tetrapod limb.
  2. Its skull is, uh, kinda frog-like?
  3. Temporally located after advanced lobe fins but before primitive tetrapods.
  4. Other stuff I can't think of.
  • Class: Amphibia
  • Descendant of Tiktaalik-like animal.
  • Ancestor to reptiles and lizards and stuff.
 Widely accepted.

Exhibits all of the hylomorphic characters that had been evolving in its ancestral taxa.

Abyssal leviathin (talk) 23:22, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Non-human apes to modern humans section

Should Paranthropus be listed here as well? Though sometimes we put them under Australopithecus I think that there is enough debate to add them to the list separately.--Woland (talk) 18:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)