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Sinamia

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Sinamia
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Fossil specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Halecomorphi
Order: Amiiformes
Family: Amiidae
Subfamily: Sinamiinae
Genus: Sinamia
Stensiö, 1935

Sinamia is an extinct genus of freshwater amiiform fish which existed in China, Japan, South Korea[1] and North Korea[2] during the Early Cretaceous period.[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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References

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  1. ^ Yabumoto, Y.; Yang, S.Y.; Kim, T.W. (2006). "Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from Japan and Korea" (PDF). Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea. 22 (1): 119–132. S2CID 53309909.
  2. ^ Kim, Phyong-Song; Ri, Sang-Ryong; An, Yong-Il; Kim, Myong-Hak; Pak, Kwang-Hyok; Jo, Kang-Song; So, Kwang-Sik (November 2023). "First occurrence of Sinamia (Amiiformes, Sinamiidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Seson Formation, Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Cretaceous Research. 151: 105633. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105633.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b 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.