1875 in paleontology

Overview of the events of 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

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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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### New taxa

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Doratorhynchus

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Seeley

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## Synapsids

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### Ophiacodontidae

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Clepsydrops[3]

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early Late Carboniferous

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Illinois

An ophiacodontid synapsid

## Paleontologists

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* Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.[4]

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Cope, E.D. (1875). "On the transition beds of the Saskatchewan district". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 27: 2–3.
3. ^ E. D. Cope. 1875. On fossil remains of Reptilia and fishes from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
4. ^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17\. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.

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