Eomola

Eomola; Temporal range: Upper Eocene
	E. bimaxillaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Molidae
Genus:	Eomola; Tyler and Bannikov, 1992
Binomial name
	Eomola bimaxillaria; Tyler and Bannikov, 1992

Eomola is an extinct genus of sunfish from the upper 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]

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^ ^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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[Tyler1992-1] 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. 1992 (4). Copeia, Vol. 1992, No. 4: 1014–1023. doi:10.2307/1446631. JSTOR 1446631.

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Eomola Temporal range: Upper Eocene^[1]

E. bimaxillaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Molidae
Genus:	Eomola Tyler and Bannikov, 1992
Binomial name
*Eomola bimaxillaria* Tyler and Bannikov, 1992