[VadeRetro]

Your name taken in vain in a discussion of previous questions. Meant to ping you.

[Ahban]

That's sporting of you. I guess I have nothing new to add. I still thing it is invalid to put them in the series when so much evidence indicates that even if there IS a series, they don't belong in it.

Sometime I will have to post the series of monkey skulls I put together. I went from baboon through a series to some sort of monkey. It looked as plausible an evolutionary tree as the one you posted, but it was from extant animals and in no way represented a line of descent.

A lot of phony series can be made to look convincing.