Megapedetes are a part of the kingdom Animalia, and the family Pedetidae (consists of one species, the springhares, that are distributed throughout much of southern Africa).
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. 
