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

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes
Arctosaurus	Misidentification.	Adams	Canada ( Nunavut)	Dubious genus of non-dinosaurian reptile.
Bothriospondylus	Valid	Sir Richard Owen	UK
Marmarospondylus	Nomen dubium	Sir Richard Owen
Omosaurus	Preoccupied.	Sir Richard Owen		Preoccupied by Joseph Leidy, 1856. Later renamed Dacentrurus.
Priodontognathus	Nomen dubium	Harry Govier Seeley,	UK

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Doratorhynchus	Valid	Seeley

Synapsids

Ophiacodontidae

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Clepsydrops^[2]	Gen nov	Valid	Cope	early Late Carboniferous		USA Illinois	An ophiacodontid synapsid

Paleontologists

Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.^[3]

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.
^ 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.

[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] E. D. Cope. 1875. On fossil remains of Reptilia and fishes from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

[3] 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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