Austromola
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| Austromola angerhoferi Temporal range: Lower Miocene
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| Species: | Austromola angerhoferi
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Austromola angerhoferi is an extinct species of the ocean sunfishes (Molidae). It is known from the Lower Miocene Ebelsberg Formation near Pucking, Austria. This species was a resident of the Paratethys Sea and is estimated to have reached a length around 320 cm (130 in).[1]
References
- ^ Gregorova, Ruzena; Schultz, Ortwin; Harzhauser, Mathias; Kroh, Andreas; Ćorić, Stjepan (12 June 2009). "A giant early Miocene sunfish from the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Austria) and its implication for molid phylogeny". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (2): 359–371. doi:10.1671/039.029.0201.
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