First occurrence of the sawfish Onchosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Spain

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

J. Fernández de Pinedo donated the specimen. The authors thank the MCNA staff for the facilities to access the fossil. F. Witzmann (Curator of fossil fishes and amphibians, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) provided photographs and valuable information about the type specimens of O. pharao. We also thank S. Klug and C. J. Underwood for suggestions on improving the manuscript. This research was funded by projects CGL2007–64061/BTE and CGL2010–18851/BTE, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacíon of Spain, and resulted from a collaboration agreement among the UPV/EHU, the CNRS, and the MNHN of Paris (France). Research project IT-320-10 of the Gobierno Vasco/E. J. Contribution ISEM number 2010–150.

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