I'm not talking about fully developed skulls or skeletons; instead small graduations in skeletal formation are what we are looking for.
Exactly. you dont want hard evidence that shows the transition in thousands of species across the entire board of organisms. You want small, almost impossible to find details of things that for all intents and purposes
would not have continued because they did not help, or even hindered, the lifeform. Therefore there wouldnt have been very many 'transitional fossils' (at least your definition) to find.
In 2004, three American palaeontologists, Neil Shubin, Edward Daeschler and Farish Jenkins, came across a group of Tikataalik roseae fossils.
Tikataalik roseae is a ‗transition species‘ between primitive fish and the earliest amphibians, which lived in the Devonian period. Jenny Clack (another palaeontologist who specializes in fish evolution) said, ―the fossil combines features of fish and tetrapods such that it fits perfectly between the two.
There are plenty others, that describe how fish transitioned to apmhibians, and how amhibians became landwalkers. There are so many obvious links you want to block it out, and you choose specific examples to defend your case (such as the pelvis).
What is even funnier about it, is how you use the same tactic to defend your book. Choosing one small example and claiming it represents cohesiveness (reference earlier debate about 'Sphere').