Stephen C. Meyer on the fossil record

Meyer notes how the fossil record does not support the Darwinian tree of life:

[T]he fossil record amply documents organism corresponding to the terminal branches on the Darwinian tree of life (animal forms representing new phyla or classes, for example), but it fails to preserve those organisms representing the internal branches or nodes leading to these representatives of novel phyla and classes of Cambrian-era animals. Yet these intermediates are the very forms required to connect the terminal branches to form a coherent evolutionary tree and establish that the representatives of the Cambrian animals did arise by means of a gradual evolutionary process from simpler Precambrian ancestors.

Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design. New York, NY: HarperOne. 2014, p. 69.