Een dijbeen van een uitgestorven bever, Trogontherium cuvieri Fischer (1809), van de Noordzeebodem en enkele wetenswaardigheden over deze bever

A proximal part of a femur of the extinct beaver Trogontherium cuvieri is described. The heavily mineralized fossil was trawled from the bottom of the North Sea between England and the Netherlands. It was trawled from Early or early Middle Pleistocene sediments of the so-called "Deep Water Channel", a 30 to 40 m deep gully in the North Sea. The exact stratigraphical position of the fossil is, however, unknown. It is the first time that the extinct beaver is mentioned from The North Sea bottom. Some remarks are made concerning the geographical and stratigraphical distribution of the species as well as on its extinction.