1875 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 Notes Arctosaurus Misidentification. Adams Dubious genus of non-dinosaurian reptile. Bothriospondylus Valid Sir Richard Owen 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,		Bothriospondylus.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Paleontologists

• Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.^[2]

References

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. ↑ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.