''Turfanodon'' is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Late Permian Sunan Formation, Sunan, Guodikeng Formation, 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'', ''Turfanodon'' was reclassified as a Synonym_(taxonomy), junior synonym of the related ''Dicynodon'' in 1988 by G. M. King. ''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.

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Dicynodonts Anomodont genera Permian synapsids of Asia Lopingian genus extinctions Permian China Fossils of China Paleontology in Xinjiang Fossil taxa described in 1973 {{anomodont-stub