Andrias scheuchzeri Teylers Museum 7112012

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Fossil salamander ( Andrias scheuchzeri ), miocene, found at Öhningen / Oeningen. " The discovery of the fossil Andrias scheuchzeri in 1726 by the Zurich city physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in Öhningen (Dutch: Oeningen) placed this town firmly in the history annals of palaeontology because Scheuchzer interpreted his find as the skeletal remains of a child who suffered the biblical deluge, and which he referred to as Homo diluvii. Later in the 1770s it was determined to be a fossilized lizard and it was finally identified as the giant salamander in 1811 by George Cuvier after he hacked gently away at the specimen to reveal the limbs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Öhningen. Tylers Museum.

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