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120 Origin of the Quadrupeds

A 250-mil lion-year old Ichthyosaur fos sil be long ing to the spe cies Stenopterygius

most high ly spe cial ized of the ma rine long time for their de vel op ment and
rep tiles, ap peared in ear ly Triassic hence a very ear ly or i gin for the group,
times. Their ad vent in to the ge o log ic but there are no known Permian rep -
his to ry of the rep tiles was sud den and tiles an te ced ent to them. 126
dra mat ic; there are no clues in pre-
In short, all the dif fer ent ma rine
Triassic sed i ments as to the pos si ble
rep tiles ap peared on Earth sep a rate -
an ces tors of the Ichthyosaurs . . . The
ly, with no ev o lu tion a ry re la tion ship
ba sic prob lem of Ichthyosaur re la tion -
among them. This con sti tutes man i -
ships is that no con clu sive ev i dence
fest sci en tif ic proof that all liv ing
can be found for link ing these rep tiles
things are cre at ed.
with any oth er rep til i an or der. 125
Alfred Romer, an oth er ex pert on
ver te brate his to ry, writes: ORIGIN OF THE
No ear li er forms [of ich thy o - QUADRUPEDS
saurs] are known. The
Quadrupeds (or te tra pods) is the
pe cu li ar i ties of
name giv en to four-foot ed land-
ich thy o saur
dwell ing ver te brates. This gen er al
struc ture
would seem - clas si fi ca tion in cludes am phib i ans,
ing ly re - reptiles and mammals. The
quire a Darwinists' ex pla na tion is that quad -
ru peds evolved from fish. However,
this claim is phys i o log i cal ly
and an a tom i cal ly

An Ichthyosaur fo -
sil, ap prox i mate ly 200 mil lion .years old
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