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| Engesser, B.. |
| Introduction The first fossil insectivore remain from Switzerland mentioned in the scientific literature, was probably a talpid humerus from the locality of Vermes 2. The specimen was found around 1850 by the Swiss geologist J.B. Greppin, who sent it to H. von Meyer in Frankfurt. This great palaeontologist made a drawing of the humerus and mentioned it in a communication to Professor Bronn (1853). H. von Meyer's drawing was published in 1887 (plate 4, fig. 14) by M. Schlosser, who provided it with the name "Talpa telluris Pomel". H. von Meyer also received two mandible fragments of an erinaceid from J.B. Greppin, also found in Vermes 2. He mistakenly identified them as "Didelphys (Peratherium) Blainvillei Chr.". Under this name these specimens were... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: 38.22. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317290 |
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