Eomola
Eomola Temporal range: Middle Eocene
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Genus: | Eomola Tyler and Bannikov, 1992
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Eomola bimaxillaria Tyler and Bannikov, 1992
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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]
References[]
- ^ 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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Categories:
- Molidae
- Eocene fish
- Eocene fish of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 1992
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish stubs
- Tetraodontiformes stubs