A humerus of the saber-toothed cat, Homotherium crenatidens (Weithofer, 1889) dredged from the seabed between the British Islands and The Netherlands

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In the last issue of 2008 (Volume 25, 2) of Cranium, the journal of the Dutch Working-Group on Pleistocene Mammals (Werkgroep Pleistocene Zoogdieren, WPZ, http://www.pleistocenemammals. com/new/) Wilrie van Logchem and Dick Mol announce the discovery of a distal end of the saber- toothed cat, Homotherium crenatidens, which fi shermen trawled from the bottom of the North Sea between the British Islands and the European continent. The richly-illustrated paper “De vroegpleistocene sabeltandkat, Homotherium crenatidens (Weithofer, 1889), voor het eerst opgevist van de bodem van de Noordzee” has been published in December 2008.