George F. Sternberg
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George Fryer Sternberg was a paleontologist best known for his discovery in Gove County, Kansas of the "fish-within-a-fish" fossil specimen of Xiphactinus audax. He was the son of Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Charles Hazelius Sternberg , was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist. His older brother, Dr. George M. Sternberg was a military surgeon assigned to Fort Harker near Ellsworth, Kansas and brought the rest of Sternberg family to Kansas to live on his ranch about 1868...

 and nephew of Brig. Gen. George M. Sternberg (1838–1915). The Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas is named for him and other members of his fossil collecting family.
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