Turfanodon Temporal range: Late Permian
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Holotype specimen of T. jiufengensis (IVPP V 26038) | |
Scientific classification | |
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
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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]