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He changed his mind on what Creationists think, though:

I further discovered that problems with older creationist models were not true of newer creationist models. Take the issue of the entire fossil record being laid down by the Flood. Contemporary creationists no longer believe this. Instead, they argue that the Paleozoic layers were laid down before the Flood, largely on the third day of creation, that the Mesozoic layers were layed down in the Flood, and that the Cenozoic layers were laid down as the Earth rocked back from the geological upheaval of the Flood.

This still argues that Cenozoic fossils are above Mesozoic ones, that Mesozoic ones are above Palaeozoic ones.

In fact, as said, some Cenozoic could well be pre-Flood (like a woolly rhino found next to a Neanderthal), while some Mesozoic could well be post-Flood (if a dinosaur is dated to 22,000 BP or 20,000 BC, it is probably from before Noah died, but after the Flood). As said in previous and as neglected by lots of Creationists who still are looking for a border "in the layer series" for the Flood.

This is evidenced by the fact that many of the so-called transitional fossils are found in the Cenozoic. There is actually a good series of horse transitional fossils. However, creationist biologist Todd Wood has developed a model for extremely rapid diversification of animal and plant life after the Flood. According to Wood, God created all “kinds” (called a baramin in creationist literature) with natural potentialities for diversification. There are various “switches” in the animal which turn on and off certain features. God made life so that it could develop and change, but the mechanism of this change is not primarily mutation and natural selection. Wood’s argument accounts for much of what we see in the late fossil record, and this newer model of the Flood solves many of the older problems with Flood geology.

I'd not bet on the horse series being good, Creationists have actually debunked it.

Also, as said, a Cenozoic fossil need not be post-Flood. I would say the 60 cm long Deinogalerix from Gargano - a place where St Michael made a miracle - is a pre-Flood relative of modern Gymnures, and Amphechinus was a relative of todays Erinaceinae - that is Hedgehogs. Yes, Moonrats and Hedgehogs have diversified after the Flood, very rapidly. But not to a very great diversity of radically different forms, comparable to Eohippus diversifying to horse. My countryman Mats Molén has theorised the "horse series" is three diverse baramins:

The evolution of the horse
by Mats Molén
https://creation.com/the-evolution-of-the-horse

And this is a defense of his polemics against ... Todd Wood.*

This passage however is not "endemic" to Wood, but common ground between him and Molén:

According to Wood, God created all “kinds” (called a baramin in creationist literature) with natural potentialities for diversification

The notion of baramins, diversifying after the Flood to present degrees of diversity, also solves the problem of how there was room for all kinds on the Ark.

Creation vs. Evolution : Baraminological Note
http://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2017/04/baraminological-note.html

Reminds me, I should collect the posts dedicated to the Ark into a series./HGL

* The evolution of the horse (Letter to the Editor)
https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j24_1/j24_1_54-55.pdf