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 <small>Stensiö, 1935</small> Meng-Yin Formation, Shangdong, China, Early Cretaceous
- Sinamia huananensis <small>Su, 1973</small> Yangtang Formation, Anhui, China, Early Cretaceous
- Sinamia chinhuaensis <small>Wei, 1976</small> Guantou Formation, Zhejiang, China, Early Cretaceous
- Sinamia luozigouensis <small>Li, 1984</small> Luozigou Formation, Jilin, China, Early Cretaceous
- Sinamia poyangica <small>Su and Li, 1990</small> Shixi Formation, Jiangxi, China, Early Cretaceous
- Sinamia liaoningensis <small>Zhang, 2012</small> Yixian Formation, Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
- Sinamia kukurihime <small>Yabumoto, 2014</small> Kuwajima Formation, Ishikawa, Japan, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)
- Sinamia lanzhoensis <small>Peng, Murray, Brinkman, Zhang & You, 2015</small> Hekou Group, Gansu, China, Early Cretaceous
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