Here's a quote from Colin Patterson, an evolutionist, (former) senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History:
Would that be the same Colin Patterson who outside of the fantasy world in your head wrote "In several animal and plant groups, enough fossils are known to bridge the wide gaps between existing types. In mammals, for example, the gap between horses, asses and zebras (genus Equus) and their closest living relatives, the rhinoceroses and tapirs, is filled by an extensive series of fossils extending back sixty-million years to a small animal, Hyracotherium, which can only be distinguished from the rhinoceros-tapir group by one or two horse-like details of the skull. There are many other examples of fossil 'missing links', such as Archaeopteryx, the Jurassic bird which links birds with dinosaurs (Fig. 45), and Ichthyostega, the late Devonian amphibian which links land vertebrates and the extinct choanate fishes ..." (Colin Patterson, "Evolution" 1978, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.)
Anyway, I don't want to argue now about what is the right way to interpret Gould's words.
Yeah, that is indeed a discussion that you would be well-advised to run away from as fast as your little legs will carry you.
If there are transitional fossils, where are they hidden?
They're not hidden. All the dumb lies of creationists have not succeeded in hiding them.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.