The article highlights the significant contributions of amateur fossil hunters in California's Central Valley, particularly the influential discoveries made by Allan Bennison in the 1930s. His fossil finds included a hadrosaurus and a mosasaur, crucial to the paleontological history of the region. Despite the area's agricultural reputation, experts like paleontologist Michael George explain that the Central Valley is rich in prehistoric fossils due to its history as a submerged landscape during the Mesozoic Era, making it a treasure trove for marine and terrestrial dinosaur specimens alike.
"Most paleontological finds are done by amateur fossil hunters and even just regular people. It's because of people's interest in this field that we as paleontologists can work on more and more fossils every day."
"Most people see the Central Valley as all agriculture and flat lands, but it's a rich source of prehistoric treasures. This is why we find so many prehistoric ocean animals."
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