Eomola Tyler and Bannikov 1992 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Tetraodontiformes - Molidae

Full reference: J. C. Tyler and A. F. Bannikov. 1992. New genus of primitive ocean sunfish with separate premaxillae from the Eocene of Southwest Russia (Molidae, Tetraodontiformes). Copeia 1992(4):1014-1023

Parent taxon: Molidae according to G. Carnevale et al. 2020

See also Tyler and Bannikov 1992

Sister taxa: Austromola, Mola, Ranzania

Subtaxa: Eomola bimaxillaria

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Pshekha River, Gorny Luch (Oligocene of Russian Federation)

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