Rhizospalax

{{Short description|Extinct genus of rodents}}

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| fossil_range = Late Oligocene

| display_parents = 3

| parent_authority = Thaler, 1966

| taxon = Rhizospalax

| authority = Miller & Gidley, 1919

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Rhizospalax is a genus of extinct rodent from Europe thought to be distantly related to modern beavers. It is the only member of the family Rhizospalacidae.{{cite journal |last1=Hugueney |first1=Marguerite |last2=Mein |first2=Pierre |title=A comment on the earliest spalacinae (rodentia, Muroidea) |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |date=1 September 1993 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=215–223 |doi=10.1007/BF01024708 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01024708 |language=en |issn=1573-7055|url-access=subscription }}