Batodonoides

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Eocene, {{fossil range|55.4|42|ref=}}

| image = Batodonoides vanhouteni.jpg

| image_caption = Teeth

| taxon = Batodonoides

| authority = Novacek, 1976

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Batodonoides powayensis Novacek, 1976 (type)
• Batodonoides vanhouteni Bloch et al. 1998
• Batodonoides walshi Kelly 2010
• Batodonoides rileyi Kelly 2013

}}

Batodonoides (often misspelled as Batonoides) is a genus of extinct shrew-like mammals, which includes a species that is possibly the smallest mammal to have ever lived. Species of Batodonoides lived about {{Ma|42|53}} during the early to middle Eocene Epoch in North America. The genus contains four species: the type species B. powayensis, the older B. vanhouteni,{{cite journal|last1=Bloch|first1=Jonathan I.|last2=Rose|first2=Kenneth D.|last3=Gingerich|first3=Philip D.|year=1998|title=New Species of Batodonoides (Lipotyphla, Geolabididae) from the Early Eocene of Wyoming: Smallest Known Mammal?|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|volume=79|issue=3|pages=804–827|jstor=1383090|doi=10.2307/1383090|doi-access=free}} B. walshi{{Cite journal|first=Thomas S.|last=Kelly|year=2010|title=New records of Marsupialia, Lipotyphla, and Primates from the Duchesnean (middle Eocene) Simi Valley Landfill local fauna, Sespe Formation, California|journal=Paludicola|volume=7|issue=4|pages=158–169|url=http://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/~jmassare/rivp/Paludicola-Articles/Kelly%202010b.pdf|access-date=2013-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230231839/http://vortex.weather.brockport.edu/~jmassare/rivp/Paludicola-Articles/Kelly%202010b.pdf|archive-date=2013-12-30|url-status=dead}} and B. rileyi.{{Cite journal|author=Thomas S. Kelly |year=2013 |title=New records of small mammals from the latest Uintan (middle Eocene) Strathern local fauna, Sespe Formation, California |journal=Paludicola |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=56–69 }}