| Turfanodon Temporal range: Late Permian ~ | |
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| Holotype specimen of T. jiufengensis (IVPP V 26038) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | † Anomodontia |
| Clade: | † Dicynodontia |
| Clade: | † Bidentalia |
| Infraorder: | † Dicynodontoidea |
| Genus: | † Turfanodon Sun, 1973 |
| Type species | |
| †Turfanodon bogdaensis Sun, 1973 | |
| Other species | |
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| Synonyms | |
T. bogdaensis:
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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]
