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Sinamia Temporal range: Early Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil specimen
Scientific 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 and North Korea during the Early Cretaceous period. Like the related bowfin, it has an elongated low-running dorsal fin, though this was likely convergently evolved.

Taxonomy

After

• 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 & You, 2015 Hekou Group, Gansu, China, Early Cretaceous

References

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. ^ 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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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Subclass: Neopterygii Infraclass: Holostei Actinopterygii see Actinopterygii Neopterygii see Neopterygii Halecomorphi see below↓ Halecomorphi
Halecomorphi †Angolaichthys? †Cipactlichthys †Peia? †Promecosomina? †Prosantichthys †Parasemionotidae Albertonia Broughia Candelarialepis Devillersia Icarealcyon Jacobulus Jurongia Lehmanotus Lombardina? Ospia Parasemionotus Piveteaunotus Qingshania Stensionotus Suius Thomasinotus Watsonulus †Ionoscopiformes Ainia Allolepidotus? Altmuehlfuro Archaeosemionotus Asialepidotus? Brachyichthys Cerinichthys Elongofuro Eoeugnathus? Furo Gymnoichthys? Heterolepidotus Holzmadenfuro Italophiopsis Ohmdenfuro Oligopleurus? Ophiopsis Panxianichthys? Robustichthys? Sanctusichthys Schernfeldfuro Sinoeugnathus? Subortichthys Xingyia? Zandtfuro Ionoscopidae Ionoscopus Oshunia Quetzalichthys Spathiurus Ophiopsiellidae Congophiopsis Macrepistius Ophiopsiella Petalopteryx Placidichthys Teoichthys Amiiformes †Caturoidea Eurypoma Liodesmus Strobilodus Caturidae Amblysemius Caturus Catutoichthys Amioidea †Tomognathus †Sinamiidae Ikechaoamia Siamamia Sinamia Amiidae Amia †Amiopsis †Calamopleurus †Cratoamia †Cyclurus †Hispanamia †Maliamia †Melvius †Nipponamia †Pachyamia †Pseudamiatus †Solnhofenamia †Vidalamia

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