Eomola
| Eomola Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Molidae |
| Genus: | †Eomola Tyler & Bannikov, 1992 |
| Species: | †E. bimaxillaria |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eomola bimaxillaria Tyler & Bannikov, 1992 | |
Eomola is an extinct genus of ocean sunfish that inhabited the northeastern Tethys Ocean during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. bimaxillaria from the Bartonian-aged Kuma Formation of Krasnodar Krai, Russia.
It is one of the earliest fossil ocean sunfishes known, and differs from all others in the structure of its jaws. The genus Eomola was described in 1992 by James Tyler and Alexandre Bannikov.