Sinamiidae

Sinamiidae

Sinamiidae

Extinct family of fishes

Sinamiidae is an extinct family of ray-finned fish.[2] They are halecomorph fishes endemic to Early Cretaceous freshwater environments in East and Southeast Asia.

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Along with Amiidae, it is one of two families that makes up the superfamily Amioidea.[1] The two are distinguished by the shape of their scales.[3] Some authors treat them as a subfamily, the Sinamiinae, within the Amiidae as the closest relatives of the modern subfamily Amiinae.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Kriwet, Jürgen (January–February 2005). "An amioid fish (Neopterygii, Amiiformes) from the Late Jurassic of the Iberian Peninsula". Geobios. 38 (1): 100. Bibcode:2005Geobi..38...99K. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2003.07.004.
  2. [2]
    Cavin, Lionel; Suteethorn, Varavudh; Buffetaut, Eric; Claude, Julien; Cuny, Gilles; Le Loeuff, Jean; Tong, Haiyan (2007). "The first sinamiid fish (Holostei: Halecomorpha) from Southeast Asia (Early Cretaceous of Thailand)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (4): 827–837. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[827:TFSFHH]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85325978.
  3. [3]
    Kriwet 2005, p. 103.
  4. [4]
    Deesri, Uthumporn; Naksri, Wilailuck; Jintasakul, Pratueng; Noda, Yoshikazu; Yukawa, Hirokazu; Hossny, Tamara El; Cavin, Lionel (April 2023). "A New Sinamiin Fish (Actinopterygii) from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand: Implications on the Evolutionary History of the Amiid Lineage". Diversity. 15 (4): 491. doi:10.3390/d15040491. ISSN 1424-2818.
  5. ↑
    Cavin, Lionel; Giner, Stephen (October 2012). "A large halecomorph fish (Actinopterygii: Holostei) from the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) of southeast France". Cretaceous Research. 37: 202. Bibcode:2012CrRes..37..201C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.020.


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