Notice of formal repository of the remaining teeth of an associated fossil specimen of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), to the Saitama Museum of Natural History, Japan

"Notice of formal repository of the remaining teeth of an associated fossil specimen of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), to the Saitama Museum of Natural History, Japan." Historical Biology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2

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Acknowledgments

We sincerely thank H. Sekine, the discoverer of the ‘Kawamoto Town’ associated specimen of O. megalodon, for the donation of the material to SMNH. We also thank those who were involved in the excavation of the original tooth set material (I. Okabe, S. Shinozaki, S. Honna, and T. Naito as noted by Uyeno et al. 1989) as well as O. Sakamoto and the late T. Uyeno for recognizing the scientific significance of the specimen.

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This article was originally published with errors, which have now been corrected in the online version. Please see Correction (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2352806)

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Funding

The original research was in part financially supported by a National Science Foundation Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Award to K.S. [Award #1830858].