Eomola

Taxobox
name = "Eomola"


fossil_range = Middle Eocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Tetraodontiformes
familia = Molidae
genus = "Eomola"
genus_authority = Tyler and Bannikov, 1992
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"E. bimaxillaria" Tyler and Bannikov, 1992 (type)

"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".cite journal |last=Tyler |first=James C. |couathors= and Bannikov, Alexandre F. |year=1992 |title=New genus of primitive ocean sunfish with separate premaxillae from the Eocene of Southwest Russia (Molidae, Tetraodontiformes) |journal=Copeia |volume=1992 |issue=4 |pages=1014-1023]

References

External links

* [http://www.oceansunfish.org/evolution.php Evolution of the Ocean Sunfish]