Contrary to Darwin's expectation that new data would reveal gradualistic continuity with slow and steady expansion, all major discoveries of the past century have only heightened the massiveness and geological abruptness of this formative event..."
(Gould, Stephen J., Nature, vol. 377, October 1995, p.682.) Source.
"Punctuated equilibrium proves evolution is false" is so 80's.
All your sources on the Cambrian Explosion are older than Methuselah.
A Summary of the Problems with Creationist Cambrian Arguments.
China fossils contradict explosion-of-species theory. "Deep roots and tiny prototypes" 40-55 million years before the "explosion."
Just in general then, you have retreated from "the links are not there" to "the links are not there at the start of the Cambrian" and even that isn't true.