Eomola

Fish

Eomola is an extinct genus of ocean sunfish from the northeastern Tethys Ocean during the Eocene. It contains one species, E. bimaxillaria, known from the Bartonian-aged Kuma Formation in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Eomola is among the earliest known fossil ocean sunfishes. Its jaws differ from those of other known molids because its premaxillae are unfused. The genus was described in 1992 by James Tyler and Alexandre Bannikov.

Known species: E. bimaxillaria
Geological age: Eocene
Described by: James Tyler and Alexandre Bannikov, 1992

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Article: Eomola (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Q5381799
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