Sinamia Explained
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
After[4]
- 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
Notes and References
- Yabumoto. Y.. Yang. S.Y.. Kim. T.W.. 2006. Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from Japan and Korea. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea. 22. 1. 119–132. 53309909.
- Kim . Phyong-Song . Ri . Sang-Ryong . An . Yong-Il . Kim . Myong-Hak . Pak . Kwang-Hyok . Jo . Kang-Song . So . Kwang-Sik . First occurrence of Sinamia (Amiiformes, Sinamiidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Seson Formation, Democratic People's Republic of Korea . Cretaceous Research . November 2023 . 151 . 105633 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105633.
- Book: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology . Vertebrate assemblages of the Jehol Biota in western Liaoning, China . Xiaolin Wang . Yuanqing Wang . Fan Jin . Xing Xu . Yuan Wang . amp . 1999 . Yuanqing Wang . Tao Deng . . Beijing . 1–12.
- Yabumoto. Yoshitaka. January 2017. A Revision of the Amiiform Fish Genus Sinamia with Phylogeny of Sinamiidae. Paleontological Research. en. 21. 1. 76–92. 10.2517/2016PR008. 90701678. 1342-8144.