Bathyergoides

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iBathyergoides
Fossil range: Early Miocene
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Suborder: Hystricomorpha
Family: Bathyergoididae
Lavocat, 1973
Genus: Bathyergoides
Stromer, 1923

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.