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Sinamia

Stensiö, 1935

Sinamia is an extinct genus of freshwater amiiform fish which existed in China, Japan, and possibly South Korea during the Early Cretaceous period.[2][3] Like the related bowfin, it has an elongated low-running dorsal fin, though this was likely convergently evolved.[4]

Taxonomy

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  • Sinamia zdanskyi Stensiö, 1935 Meng-Yin Formation, Shangdong, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia huananensis Su, 1973 Yangtang Formation, Anhui, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia chinhuaensis Wei, 1976 Guantou Formation, Zhejiang, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia luozigouensis Li, 1984 Luozigou Formation, Jilin, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia poyangica Su and Li, 1990 Shixi Formation, Jiangxi, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia liaoningensis Zhang, 2012 Yixian Formation, Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
  • Sinamia kukurihime Yabumoto, 2014 Kuwajima Formation, Ishikawa, Japan, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)
  • Sinamia lanzhoensis Peng, Murray, Brinkman, Zhang and You, 2015 Hekou Group, Gansu, China, Early Cretaceous

References

  1. 1 2 Deesri, U.; Naksri, W.; Jintasakul, P.; Noda, Y.; Yukawa, H.; Hossny, T.E.; Cavin, L. A New Sinamiin Fish (Actinopterygii) from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand: Implications on the Evolutionary History of the Amiid Lineage. Diversity 2023, 15, 491. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15040491
  2. Xiaolin Wang; Yuanqing Wang; Fan Jin; Xing Xu & Yuan Wang (1999). "Vertebrate assemblages of the Jehol Biota in western Liaoning, China". In Yuanqing Wang & Tao Deng (eds.). Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (PDF). Beijing: China Ocean Press. pp. 1–12.
  3. Choi, Seung; Lee, Yuong-Nam (2017). "A review of vertebrate body fossils from the Korean Peninsula and perspectives". Geosciences Journal. 21 (6): 867–889. Bibcode:2017GescJ..21..867C. doi:10.1007/s12303-017-0040-6. ISSN 1226-4806. S2CID 133835817.
  4. 1 2 Yabumoto, Yoshitaka (January 2017). "A Revision of the Amiiform Fish Genus Sinamia with Phylogeny of Sinamiidae". Paleontological Research. 21 (1): 76–92. doi:10.2517/2016PR008. ISSN 1342-8144. S2CID 90701678.


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