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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study ofprehistoriclife forms onEarth through the examination of plant and animalfossils.[1] This includes the study of body fossils,tracks (ichnites),burrows, cast-off parts, fossilisedfeces (coprolites),palynomorphs andchemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as ascience. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1875.
| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Arctosaurus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Adams | Carnian | Heiberg Formation |  Nunavut | Dubiousarchosauriform | |
| Cionodon stenopsis[2] | Sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Cope | Campanian | Belly River Group |  Alberta | A species ofCionodon | |
| Bothriospondylus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Owen | Kimmeridgian | Kimmeridge Clay Formation |  England | Asauropod | |
| Marmarospondylus | Gen. nov. | Nomen dubium | Sir Richard Owen | Bathonian | Forest Marble Formation | A new genus forBothriospondylus robustus named earlier in the same year | ||
| Omosaurus armatus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Preoccupied | Owen | Kimmeridgian | Kimmeridge Clay Formation | England | Preoccupied byOmosaurusJoseph Leidy, 1856. Later renamedDacentrurus | |
| Priodontognathus | Gen. nov. | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Oxfordian | Yorkshire | England | A new genus forIguanodon phillipsii |
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| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov | Valid | Cope | earlyLate Carboniferous | Anophiacodontid synapsid |
