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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
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

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Doratorhynchus	Valid	Seeley

Synapsids

Ophiacodontidae

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Clepsydrops ^[3]	Gen nov	Valid	Cope	early Late Carboniferous		USA Illinois	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.

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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.

[cope1875-2] 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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