Bathyergoides
{{Short description|Extinct genus of rodents}}
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| fossil_range = Early Miocene
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| display_parents = 2
| parent_authority = Lavocat, 1973
| taxon = Bathyergoides
| authority = Stromer 1926E. Stromer 1926. "Reste Land- und Süsswasser bewohnender Wirbeltiere aus den Diamantfeldern Deutsch Südwestafrica". In: E. Kaiser (ed.), Die Diamantenwüste Südwest- Afrikas. 2: 139-141.
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = B. neotertiarius (type)
}}
Bathyergoides is an extinct genus of rodent from Africa thought to be related to the modern blesmols. It is the only member of the family Bathyergoididae.{{cn|date=April 2020}} Fossils of Bathyergoides neotertiarius were recovered from the Early Miocene Elisabeth Bay Formation of Namibia.Pickford, 2018, p. 88
References
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= Bibliography =
- {{cite journal |last=Pickford |first=Martin |year=2018 |title=Tenrecoid mandible from Elisabethfeld (Early Miocene) Namibia |url=http://www.mme.gov.na/files/publications/5bf_Pickford2018_Tenrecoid%20mandible%20from%20the%20Sperrgebiet.pdf |journal=Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia |volume=18 |pages=87–92 |accessdate=2018-08-26}}
{{Prehistoric rodents}}
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Category:Monotypic prehistoric rodent genera
Category:Miocene mammals of Africa
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1926
Category:Taxa named by Ernst Stromer
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