A specific example of wilful blindness in popular science (SciPop) is in a work called Paleaeoecology and Palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic Mammals, Edited by Kathlyn M. Stewart and Kevin L. Seymore.
The Hagerman Fossil Beds
Warm, Epicontinental Seas, Again
Epicontinental seas supporting an abundance of green and red algae. What's the difference between Cambrian and Ordovician? The Cambrian is the sea floor, the Ordovician is the open ocean immediately above it.