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Congratulations to Guenter Schweigert for nailing this one. I looked in a very puny fashion. Judith Harris -----Original Message----- From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Guenter Schweigert Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:40 AM To: 'paleonet@nhm.ac.uk' Subject: WG: paleonet Amphibian or arthropod? Here is indeed a revision of Boomgardia: Herre, W. (1950): Der derzeitige Stand unseres Wissens über die fossilen Urodelen, zugleich einige kritische Bemerkungen über Boomgardia salamandriformis v. Huene. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont., Monatshefte, 1950: 19-25; Stuttgart. Cheers, Guenter ************************************* Dr Guenter Schweigert Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Rosenstein 1 70191 Stuttgart GERMANY schweigert.smns@naturkundemuseum-bw.de ---------- Von: Dan_Chure@nps.gov[SMTP:Dan_Chure@nps.gov] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. August 2002 23:15 An: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk; vrtpaleo@usc.edu Betreff: paleonet Amphibian or arthropod? Sorry for the cross posts, but this question probably requires casting a wide net. In the late 1940s F.v. Huene described a new genus of salamander ( Boomgardia salamandroides) from the Dogger. He illustrates (poorly) the part and counterpart of the skeleton in his Fig. 1. The back half of the specimen looks like an arthropod, with a segmented abdomen and a terminal telson. The front end is crushed, but Huene believed he could see skull bones and illustrates them and gives a reconstruction of the skull in dorsal and ventral views (!). I have checked the systematic listings in both Romer's 1966 Vertebrate Paleontology and Carroll's 1984 Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. Neither have Boomgardia listed, even as a junior synonym. Does anyone know of any other studies on this specimen that might have confirmed Boomgardia as an amphibian or an invertebrate? The citation is given on the header of the paper as: Huene, F.v. 1945-1948. Ein echter Urodele aus dem unteren Dogger. Sonderdruck aus dem Neuen Jahrbuch f. Mineralogie, etc. Monatshefte Abt. B. Heft 1-4: pages 33-39. Dan ________________________ Daniel J. Chure, Ph.D. Research Scientist Dinosaur National Monument Box 128 Jensen UT 84035 USA ph: 435-781-7703 dan_chure@nps.gov
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