Turfanodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of dicynodonts}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Late Permian
~{{fossil range|254|252.3}}

| image = Turfanodon jiufengensis holotype.png

| image_caption = Holotype specimen of T. jiufengensis (IVPP V 26038)

| taxon = Turfanodon

| display_parents= 2

| authority = Sun, 1973

| type_species = {{extinct}}Turfanodon bogdaensis

| type_species_authority = Sun, 1973

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision =

• {{extinct}}T. jiufengensis Liu, 2021

| synonyms =

T. bogdaensis:

• Dicynodon bogdaensis King, 1988
• Dicynodon sunanensis Li, Cheng, and Li, 2000
• Striodon magnus Sun, 1978

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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,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 Turfanodon was reclassified as a junior synonym of the related Dicynodon in 1988 by G. M. King.King, G. M. (1988). "Anomodontia". Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. 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.{{cite journal |last=Kammerer |first=C.F. |author2=Angielczyk, K.D. |author3= Fröbisch, J. |year=2011 |title=A comprehensive taxonomic revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and its implications for dicynodont phylogeny, biogeography, and biostratigraphy |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=Suppl. 1 |pages=1–158 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.627074|bibcode=2011JVPal..31S...1K |s2cid=84987497 }}{{Cite journal|last=Liu |first=J. |year=2021 |title=The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 6. Turfanodon jiufengensis sp. nov. (Dicynodontia) |journal=PeerJ |volume=9 |issue=e10854 |pages=e10854 |doi=10.7717/peerj.10854 |pmid=33643709 |pmc=7896508 |doi-access=free}}