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1875 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of fossils, tracks, burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces, palynomorphs. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science and this article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1875. Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist
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1877 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of fossils, tracks, burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces, palynomorphs. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science and this article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1877. O. W. Lucas collected the first remains of what would later in the year be named Laelaps trihedrodon from Quarry I of the Saurian Hill at Garden Park, Colorado. Edward Drinker Cope would describe the later in the year in a short paper titled On a carnivorous dinosaurian from the Dakota beds of Colorado. The Dakota beds he references are actually Morrison Formation strata, all of the preceding material has since been lost to science with the exception of 5 broken, partial tooth crowns. Cope concludes the paper with a criticism of his rival O. C. Marshs attempt to rename the Laelaps genus Dryptosaurus because the generic name Laelaps has been used in entomology, however, subsequent researchers have supported Marshs new name. Apatosaurus specimen found with preserved gastroliths,1877 in science Cannon, G. L. Sauropodan gastroliths. On the type and referred material of Laelaps trihedrodon Cope 1877, in Tanke, Darren, and Carpenter, Kenneth. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, cS1 maint, Uses editors parameter Cope, E. D. On a carnivorous dinosaurian from the Dakota beds of Colorado, sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In, Tanke D. H, Carpenter K, editors, mesozoic vertebrate life, new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN,2001
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1878 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of fossils, tracks, burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces, palynomorphs. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science and this article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1878. O. W. Lucas recovers more material which would be referred to Laelaps trihedrodon from Morrison Formation strata near Garden Park, on the type and referred material of Laelaps trihedrodon Cope 1877. In Tanke, Darren, and Carpenter, Kenneth, bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press
