Turfanodon Explained

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]}

Notes and 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 . 10.1080/02724634.2011.627074. 2011JVPal..31S...1K . 84987497 .
4. Liu . J. . 2021 . The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 6. Turfanodon jiufengensis sp. nov. (Dicynodontia) . . 9 . e10854 . e10854 . 10.7717/peerj.10854 . 33643709 . 7896508 . free.