1875 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1875.
Dinosaurs
| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Arctosaurus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Adams | Carnian | Heiberg Formation |  Nunavut | Dubious archosauriform | |
| Cionodon stenopsis[2] | Sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Cope | Campanian | Belly River Group |  Alberta | A species of Cionodon | |
| Bothriospondylus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Owen | Kimmeridgian | Kimmeridge Clay Formation |  England | A sauropod | |
| Marmarospondylus | Gen. nov. | Nomen dubium | Sir Richard Owen | Bathonian | Forest Marble Formation | A new genus for Bothriospondylus robustus named earlier in the same year | ||
| Omosaurus armatus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Preoccupied | Owen | Kimmeridgian | Kimmeridge Clay Formation | England | Preoccupied by Omosaurus Joseph Leidy, 1856. Later renamed Dacentrurus | |
| Priodontognathus | Gen. nov. | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Oxfordian | Yorkshire | England | A new genus for Iguanodon phillipsii |
Pterosaurs
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Synapsids
Ophiacodontidae
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Gen nov | Valid | Cope | early Late Carboniferous | An ophiacodontid synapsid |
Paleontologists
- Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.[4]
References
- ^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
- ^ Cope, E.D. (1875). "On the transition beds of the Saskatchewan district". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 27: 2–3.
- ^ E. D. Cope. 1875. On fossil remains of Reptilia and fishes from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
- ^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.