Sinamia

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Sinamia
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
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Sinamia

Stensiö, 1935

Sinamia is an extinct genus of amiiform fish which existed in China, Japan, and possibly South Korea during the Early Cretaceous period.[1][2] Like the related bowfin, it has an elongated low-running dorsal fin, though this was likely convergently evolved.[3]

Taxonomy

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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: China Ocean Press. pp. 1–12.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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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