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Hydrologic sorting is complete nonsense. Hydrology sorts things based on density and shape (hydrodynamics). It has never on this earth sorted things based on classification. If hydrology sorted the fossils, the heaviest would settle on the bottom and the lightest on top. That is how every known example of hydrological sorting has worked. In that case, Tyrannosaurus Rex would be in the bottom layers of the sorting with his huge thigh bones (at least parts of him would), and little trilobites and smaller creatures would settle last in the top finer layers. In fact, you find them in just the opposite order every time. The biggest dinosaurs are in the top layers and the smallest and simplest creatures in the lower layers.

Hydrological sorting works that way in every case known to exist on the earth. So, stating it might somehow have worked differently during the flood is no different than stating a miracle happened and hydrology for the only known time on earth behaved as it never has been known to do. In that case, you might as well leave the hydrological sorting out and just go straight to the miracle because hydrological sorting argues solidly against the dinosaur bones being deposited and sorted by that method.

Lame thinkers also sometimes point out as someone did above that sometimes the strata of earth are in the reverse order. This is the exception that proves the rule. Whenever the layers are found in any other order, it is always the exact opposite order. Long ago, scientists explained that the earth likely folded over in some places, turning layers upside down, and this was later proven when the folds were discovered — the actual area where the earth’s layers bend back over double on themselves. So, the theory holds even in the rare cases where something, at first glade, appears to disprove it.

Never do you find the layers of strata in any other order. You simply find them in the one known order, either right-side-up or up-side-down. As for missing layers in some locations that is simply because not all sedimentary action was global. Within the large global events, leaving layers that are present in one order around the world, there are local events like small volcanic eruptions that add layers onto the global deposits. Sometimes a volcanic event is so large, it creates a layer of ash that covers the whole earth. Naturally, the layer is thicker in the direction of the prevailing wind and closer to the volcano. Other events are small and may barely cover parts of single state. But always the global layers are in the same order. So predictable is the pattern around the world that you can tell when a particular local volcanic eruption happened by which layers are directly below and above it.

In not one known case has hydrology ever sorted something by complexity and by its apparent relationship to other similar species, rather than by mere density and shape. (In other words a marble settles faster than a saucer made of the same ceramic material (shape), and lead settles faster than wood (density).)

Only a shameless scientist who is also a Christian would suggest hydrology can explain the sorting of fossils by classification into different layers of settlement with no scientific evidence to support that such a thing is possible and no common sense rationale to support how or why that would happen.