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.
Arctosaurus
Misidentification.
Adams
Dubious genus of non-dinosaurian reptile.
Bothriospondylus
Valid
Sir Richard Owen
Marmarospondylus
Nomen dubium
Omosaurus
Preoccupied.
Preoccupied by Joseph Leidy, 1856. Later renamed Dacentrurus.
Priodontognathus
Harry Govier Seeley,
Doratorhynchus
Seeley
Clepsydrops[2]
Gen nov
Cope
early Late Carboniferous
USA Illinois
An ophiacodontid synapsid
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