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1875 in paleontology

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Dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Arctosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Adams	Carnian	Heiberg Formation	Nunavut	Dubious archosauriform
last=Cope	first=E.D.	year=1875	title=On the transition beds of the Saskatchewan district	journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	volume=27	pages=2-3}}	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

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Synapsids

Ophiacodontidae

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images

Paleontologists

Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.

References

Cope, E.D.. (1875). "On the transition beds of the Saskatchewan district". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
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.. (1999). "The Complete Dinosaur". Indiana University Press.

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