Eomola

Eomola is an extinct genus of sunfish from the middle Eocene. Its fossils have been found in Russia. Eomola was described in 1992 by James Tyler and Alexandre Bannikov, and the type species is E. bimaxillaria.[1]

Eomola
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
E. bimaxillaria
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Eomola

Tyler and Bannikov, 1992
Binomial name
Eomola bimaxillaria
Tyler and Bannikov, 1992

References

  1. Tyler, James C.; Bannikov, Alexandre F. (1992). "New genus of primitive ocean sunfish with separate premaxillae from the Eocene of Southwest Russia (Molidae, Tetraodontiformes)". Copeia. Copeia, Vol. 1992, No. 4. 1992 (4): 1014–1023. doi:10.2307/1446631. JSTOR 1446631.


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