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Eomola

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Eomola bimaxillaria
Temporal range: Upper Eocene[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Molidae
Genus: Eomola
Tyler and Bannikov, 1992
Species:
E. bimaxillaria
Binomial name
Eomola bimaxillaria
Tyler and Bannikov, 1992

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

References

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  1. ^ 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). Copeia, Vol. 1992, No. 4: 1014–1023. doi:10.2307/1446631. JSTOR 1446631.
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