Eomola
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Molidae |
| Genus: | †Eomola Tyler & Bannikov, 1992 |
| Species: | †E. bimaxillaria |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eomola bimaxillaria Tyler & Bannikov, 1992 | |
Eomola is an extinct genus of ocean sunfish that inhabited the northeastern Tethys Ocean during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. bimaxillaria from the Bartonian-aged Kuma Formation of Krasnodar Krai, Russia.[1][2]
It is one of the earliest fossil ocean sunfishes known, and differs from all others in the structure of its jaws.[1] The genus Eomola was described in 1992 by James Tyler and Alexandre Bannikov.[3]
References
- ^ a b 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. 1992 (4): 1014–1023. doi:10.2307/1446631. ISSN 0045-8511.
- ^ Bannikov, A. F.; Parin, N. N. (1996). "The List of Marine Fishes From Cenozoic (Upper Paleocene-Middle Miocene) Localities in Southern European Russia and Adjacent Countries". Voprosy Ikhtiologii. 37 (2): 149–161.
- ^ 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. 1992 (4). Copeia, Vol. 1992, No. 4: 1014–1023. doi:10.2307/1446631. JSTOR 1446631.
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