Scalenodon is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts from the Middle Triassic of Africa and possibly Russia.

The first fossils belonging to Scalenodon were found in the Manda Formation of Zambia and assigned to Trirachodon angustifrons in 1946.

[2] In 1963, a second species called S. drysdalli was named from the Ntawere Formation in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia.

[4] A 2003 analysis of traversodontid relationships did not find the species of Scalenodon from the Manda Formation to form a single clade, meaning that many were not referable to the genus.

S. attridgei was viewed as a possible synonym of S. charigi, which was also found to be only distantly related to S.