Eomola
Extinct genus of fishes
Eomola bimaxillaria Temporal range: Upper Eocene[1] | |
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Scientific 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
- ^ 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.
External links
- Evolution of the Ocean Sunfish
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