English Science Geology A religious book about the Creation/evolution debate

Notable examples of ‘living fossils’ in the wild are the Tuatara which are found in Cretaceous and ‘older’ rocks (on the classic geological time scale) but none in ‘recent’ strata higher up the geological column. Yet they are still living today and show no change despite the supposedly 135 million year gap. This is testimony against any evolutionary change. The Coelacanth (mentioned in Appendix C) was supposed to be a transition creature for fish to amphibians since fossils of these creatures are found in what is supposedly very old rock (but not ***in upper ‘earlier’ strata***). Yet the finding of an exact modern counterpart in 1938 is another embarrassing example of a ‘living fossil’. The record in the rocks is not one of transition, but of death and at times, extinction—such as the woolly mammoth and the pterodactyls, for which there are no modern counterparts.

Should they not be older strata if they are up?