Biology:Eomola

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Eomola
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Eomola bimaxillaria.jpg
E. bimaxillaria
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Eomola

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

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

  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. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5381799 entry