Megapedetes
GENUS OF MAMMALS (FOSSIL)
Megapedetes gariepensis; Megapedetes pickfordi; Megapedetes pentadactylus; Megapedetes aegaeus
Megapedetes is a genus of fossil rodents related to the springhare and other species of the genus Pedetes, with which it forms the family Pedetidae. At least four species are known, which ranged through Africa, southwestern Asia, and southeastern Europe from the Miocene to the Pliocene.