Keywords: Andrias scheuchzeri Teylers Museum 7112012.jpg en 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 2012-11-07 15 06 35 own Vassil other versions cc-zero Fossils in Teylers Museum Andrias scheuchzeri fossils 18th century in paleontology Fossils from Öhningen |