Okay, let's recap. I said "scientists no longer look for a linear progression from dinosaurs to birds," by which I meant (as I explained later) that they didn't expect that all the dinosaurs would be replaced by more birdlike creatures which would be replaced by birds, step by step. (Imagine a crowd of people very slowly shuffing down the street--the center of the crowd can get from point A to point B without any individual member occupying both of those points. It's more like that.)
You asked a question that said "fossils found in the fossil record were laid down in a non-linear chronological progression."
I said that the fossils themselves were obviously laid down in a chronological progression, because some animals died before others. That's all I meant.
After that I think we were talking at cross purposes.