01/09/2026
After a long time of silence we are back with exciting news! Former BSc students Anne Basten, Pascal van der Bij and Wouter Berings, supervised by Sophie Boerman and Prof. Johan Vellekoop, just published their BSc project in Geologica Belgica. For their project they studied the crocodylian remains of the historical Filhol collection housed at KU Leuven. Read all about it on:
Diplocynodon is an enigmatic extinct genus that is generally considered to be part of the Alligatoroidea, Crocodylia. While Alligatoroidea potentially originated in North America, Diplocynodon only has a fossil record in Europe, dating from the middle Eocene to middle Miocene (c. 45–15 Ma). The st...