Sinamia

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Sinamia
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Sinamia NMNS.jpg
Fossil specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Amiiformes
Family:
Sinamiidae
Genus:
Sinamia

Stensiö, 1935

Sinamia is an extinct genus of amiiform fish which existed in China and Japan during the Early Cretaceous period.[1] Like the related bowfin, it has an elongated low-running dorsal fin, though this was likely convergently evolved.[2]

Taxonomy[]

After[2]

  • Sinamia zdanskyi Stensiö, 1935 Meng-Yin Formation, Shangdong, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia huananensis Su, 1973 , Anhui, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia chinhuaensis Wei, 1976 , Zhejiang, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia luozigouensis Li, 1984 , Jilin, China, Early Cretaceous
  • Sinamia poyangica Su and Li, 1990 , 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. ^ 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: . pp. 1–12.
  2. ^ 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.


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