As Curator, Gilmore was often asked to identify fossils brought to the museum by the public.

Repenning was the first paleontologist to identify fossils from the North Slope of Alaska as dinosaur bones.

Since he himself had no scientific qualifications or references to use in identifying fossils, Condon sent some fossils to O. C. Marsh of Yale University.

All of the exhibits have been strongly criticized as incorrectly identified dinosaur prints, other fossils, or outright forgeries.

Those prints have been strongly criticized as incorrectly identified dinosaur prints, other fossils, or outright forgeries.

Steno was not the first to identify fossils as being from living organisms.

In 1836, Agassiz identified closely related fossils at Monte Bolca (an important fossil site in Europe) as Enoplosus pygopterus (named for its smaller fins).

These differences may also help to identify fossils, by excluding from consideration organisms whose body parts do not match the combination of types of preservation found in a particular fossil bed.

It is not easy to identify fossils.

But the scientists also identified other fossils as embryos of different kinds of animals.