Prosiphneus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of rodents}}

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| image = Prosiphneus-Tianjin Natural History Museum.jpg

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| image_caption = Fossil specimen, Tianjin Natural History Museum

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Miocene|Pleistocene}}

| extinct = yes

| genus = Prosiphneus

| species = licenti

| parent_authority = Teilhard de Jardin 1926

| authority = Teilhard de Jardin 1926

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Prosiphneus is an extinct genus of rodent that lived during Miocene to Quaternary of China and Russia.{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183012/http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/rodentia/myomorpha/history_Prosiphneus.html | archive-date=3 March 2016 |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/rodentia/myomorpha/history_Prosiphneus.html | title=Taxonomic history of the genus †Prosiphneus Teilhard de Chardin, 1926 | website=Mikko's Phylogeny Archive | last=Haaramo | first=Mikko |access-date=11 April 2024}}