Turfanodon

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Turfanodon
Temporal range: Late Permian
~254–252.3  Ma
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Turfanodon jiufengensis holotype.png
Holotype specimen of T. jiufengensis (IVPP V 26038)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Suborder: Anomodontia
Clade: Dicynodontia
Clade: Bidentalia
Infraorder: Dicynodontoidea
Genus: Turfanodon
Sun, 1973
Type species
Turfanodon bogdaensis
Sun, 1973
Other species
  • T. jiufengensisLiu, 2021
Synonyms

T. bogdaensis:

  • Dicynodon bogdaensisKing, 1988
  • Dicynodon sunanensisLi, Cheng, and Li, 2000
  • Striodon magnusSun, 1978
Life restoration Turfanodon22DB.jpg
Life restoration

Turfanodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Late Permian Sunan, Guodikeng, and Naobaogou Formations of China. The holotype of T. bogdaensis was discovered between 1963-1964 and was originally named in 1973 by A. Sun with the type species Turfanodon bogdaensis, [1] Turfanodon was reclassified as a junior synonym of the related Dicynodon in 1988 by G. M. King. [2] T. bogdaensis remained a species of Dicynodon for over two decades before the genus was reinstated in 2011 in a revision of the taxonomy of Dicynodon by palaeontologist Christian Kammerer. A second species from Inner Mongolia, T. jiufengensis, was named in 2021 by palaeontologist Jun Liu from a nearly complete skeleton and other referred bones. Turfanodon was a relatively large dicynodont, and similar in appearance to the related Daptocephalus from South Africa. [3] [4]

References

  1. A.-l. Sun. 1973. [Permo-Triassic dicynodonts from Turfan, Sinkiang]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (I): Permo-Triassic Vertebrate Fossils of Turfan Basin. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica 10:53-68
  2. King, G. M. (1988). " Anomodontia ". Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
  3. Kammerer, C.F.; Angielczyk, K.D.; Fröbisch, J. (2011). "A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (Suppl. 1): 1–158. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31S...1K. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.627074. S2CID   84987497.
  4. Liu, J. (2021). "The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 6. Turfanodon jiufengensis sp. nov. (Dicynodontia)". PeerJ . 9 (e10854): e10854. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10854 . PMC   7896508 . PMID   33643709.