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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sues, Hans-Dieter

Titel

Bernhard Peyer and his discoveries of Triassic vertebrates in Switzerland

Ist Teil von

• Swiss journal of palaeontology, 2024-12, Vol.143 (1), p.8-6, Article 8

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bernhard Peyer (1885–1963) was a prominent Swiss vertebrate palaeontologist and anatomist at the University of Zurich. In 1919, he discovered the occurrence of Middle Triassic (Anisian–Ladinian) ichthyosaurs, sauropterygians, and other reptiles at Monte San Giorgio on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Starting in 1924, Peyer, and later his student and successor Emil Kuhn-Schnyder, worked tirelessly to excavate and collect material from fossil-bearing deposits in this region. The discovery of an articulated skeleton of a long-necked reptile in 1929 allowed Peyer to solve the riddle of unusually elongate bones from the German Muschelkalk, which, he demonstrated, were cervical vertebrae of the extraordinarily long-necked reptile Tanystropheus . As a student in 1919 and later in 1942, Peyer explored a Rhaetian bonebed close to his native town of Schaffhausen. Processing the sediment, he recovered numerous small bones and teeth of vertebrates, among which teeth of diverse stem-mammals are of particular importance.