Abstract: A new species of rhizomyid rodent is described from late Neogene deposits of Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province. It resembles Rhizomys (Brachyrhizomys) shansius, but differs in its smaller and proportionally narrower molars, and retention of a mure and short mesolophid on Ms. That two bamboo rats occurred in the late Neogene of this region, beyond the northern limit of present distribution for the family, indicates greater diversity than previously known and moister conditions than at present.