I’m very confident that there is, just as I’m confident that “hypothesis” should not be capitalized (that is truly splitting hairs). Biblical study even has a nearly perfect analogy to fossils in the form of source texts that are hypothesized by scholars to exist based on their analyses of existing documents. Discovery of new ones tends to support some hypotheses and blow others to smithereens.
Predicting the strata in which particular fossils will be found, then looking for them, is pure hypothesis testing, as is predicting the existence and date of a source document, then looking for it.