'It's the entire ecosystem from an age that's gone,' Wayne Bischoff, the director of cultural resources at Envicom Corp. told BBC. 'We have all this evidence to help future researchers put together what an entire ecology looked like nine million years ago. That's really rare.'
Austin Hendy, an assistant curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County said the way the fossils were laid out painted an image of where the shoreline met the sea nine million years ago. 'I could see the shoreline in three dimensions, and I could see all the fossils, all the organisms that were living on that shoreline and washing up on that beach,' he told Business Insider.
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