Sinamia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Early Cretaceous}}

| image = Sinamia NMNS.jpg

| image_caption = Fossil specimen

| taxon = Sinamia

| authority = Stensiö, 1935

}}

Sinamia is an extinct genus of freshwater amiiform fish which existed in China, Japan, South Korea{{cite journal|last1=Yabumoto|first1=Y.|last2=Yang|first2=S.Y.|last3=Kim|first3=T.W.|year=2006|title=Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from Japan and Korea|journal=Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea|volume=22|issue=1|pages=119–132|url=https://cactus.utahtech.edu/jharris/Yabumotoetal_fish.pdf|s2cid=53309909}} and North Korea{{cite journal |last1=Kim |first1=Phyong-Song |last2=Ri |first2=Sang-Ryong |last3=An |first3=Yong-Il |last4=Kim |first4=Myong-Hak |last5=Pak |first5=Kwang-Hyok |last6=Jo |first6=Kang-Song |last7=So |first7=Kwang-Sik |title=First occurrence of Sinamia (Amiiformes, Sinamiidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Seson Formation, Democratic People's Republic of Korea |journal=Cretaceous Research |date=November 2023 |volume=151 |pages=105633 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105633}} during the Early Cretaceous period.{{cite book |url=http://www.paleoglot.org/files/Wang&_99.pdf |chapter=Vertebrate assemblages of the Jehol Biota in western Liaoning, China |author=Xiaolin Wang |author2=Yuanqing Wang |author3=Fan Jin |author4= Xing Xu |author5=Yuan Wang |name-list-style=amp |year=1999 |title=Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology |editor1=Yuanqing Wang |editor2=Tao Deng |publisher=China Ocean Press |location=Beijing |pages=1–12}} Like the related bowfin, it has an elongated low-running dorsal fin, though this was likely convergently evolved.{{Cite journal|last=Yabumoto|first=Yoshitaka|date=January 2017|title=A Revision of the Amiiform Fish Genus Sinamia with Phylogeny of Sinamiidae|url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.2517/2016PR008|journal=Paleontological Research|language=en|volume=21|issue=1|pages=76–92|doi=10.2517/2016PR008|s2cid=90701678|issn=1342-8144|url-access=subscription}}