Bernhard Peyer and his discoveries of Triassic vertebrates in Switzerland

IF 3 2区地球科学 Q1 PALEONTOLOGY

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI:10.1186/s13358-024-00310-z

Hans-Dieter Sues

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Abstract

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.

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Bernhard Peyer 和他在瑞士发现的三叠纪脊椎动物

Bernhard Peyer（1885-1963 年）是瑞士著名的古脊椎动物学家和苏黎世大学解剖学家。1919 年，他在瑞士和意大利交界处的圣乔治山发现了三叠纪中期（阿尼斯期-拉迪尼期）的鱼龙、长鼻龙和其他爬行动物。从 1924 年开始，佩耶和他后来的学生和继任者埃米尔-库恩-施奈德（Emil Kuhn-Schnyder）孜孜不倦地在这一地区的化石矿床中挖掘和收集材料。1929 年，佩耶发现了一具长颈爬行动物的关节骨架，从而解开了德国 Muschelkalk 地区异常细长骨骼的谜团，他证明这些骨骼是超长颈爬行动物 Tanystropheus 的颈椎骨。1919 年和 1942 年，作为一名学生，佩耶在他的家乡沙夫豪森附近勘探了一个雷提亚骨床。在处理沉积物时，他发现了许多脊椎动物的小骨头和牙齿，其中各种茎哺乳动物的牙齿尤为重要。

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Swiss Journal of Palaeontology Earth and Planetary Sciences-Paleontology

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4.30

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4 weeks

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