Sinamiidae

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

Sinamiidae

Tiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmioideiPBDB
Diet
carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 31 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 31 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 28 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–128 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 6 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 10 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya72.2 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

31 occurrences of Sinamiidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

31 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

16 formations

Sao Khua — 16.89°N, 104.08°ESao Khua — 16.86°N, 104.48°ESao Khua — 17.07°N, 104.16°ESao Khua — 17.10°N, 102.49°EKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°EItsuki — 35.94°N, 136.62°EItsuki — 35.90°N, 136.79°EIlek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EIlek — 56.53°N, 91.81°EYixian — 41.60°N, 120.87°EYixian — 41.13°N, 121.14°ELuohandong — 38.92°N, 108.08°EOkurodani — 36.05°N, 136.88°EKhok Kruat — 15.23°N, 104.86°EYiliekede — 53.13°N, 124.09°EItat — 55.65°N, 89.18°EHengtongshan — 42.42°N, 125.85°EGuantou — 28.26°N, 119.66°EChouchang — 31.10°N, 119.88°EDalazi — 43.73°N, 130.35°EMengyin — 35.87°N, 117.95°EXiaoyan — 29.82°N, 118.34°E

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The named rock units Sinamiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sinamiidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sinamiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Sinamiidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

27 references

Each of the 31 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 15 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sinamiidae

Credit
Tiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sinamiidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAmioidei through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Berg 1940