Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Arctosaurus Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Adams Carnian Heiberg Formation Dubious archosauriform Cionodon stenopsis Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Campanian Belly River Group A species of Cionodon Bothriospondylus Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Owen Kimmeridgian Kimmeridge Clay Formation 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 Preoccupied by Omosaurus Joseph Leidy, 1856. Later renamed Dacentrurus Priodontognathus Gen. nov. Nomen dubium Seeley Oxfordian Yorkshire 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 ImagesClepsydropsE. D. Cope. 1875. On fossil remains of Reptilia and fishes from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.Gen novValidCopeearly Late Carboniferous An ophiacodontid synapsid
Paleontologists Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.
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