Typotheriopsis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Late Miocene (Mayoan-Huayquerian)
~{{fossil range|11.6|6.8}}.

| taxon = Typotheriopsis

| authority = Cabrera & Kraglievich, 1931

| type_species = †Typotheriopsis chasicoensis

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• T. chasicoensis {{small|(Cabrera & Kraglievich, 1931)}}
• T. silveyrai {{small|Cabrera, 1937}}

| synonyms =

• Typotheriopsis vanhouttei {{small|Cattoi, 1943}}
• Typotheriopsis jachalensis {{small|Rusconi, 1947}}

}}

Typotheriopsis is an extinct genus of Notoungulate belonging to the family Mesotheriidae, which included several small Meridiungulates specialized in digging. It is considered as the sister taxon of the clade including Mesotherium and Pseudotypotherium.{{Cite journal | last1 = Cerdeño| first1 = E. | last2 = Montalvo| first2 = C. I.|title = Los Mesotheriinae (Mesotheriidae, Notoungulata) del Mioceno Superior de La Pampa, Argentina | journal = Revista Española de Paleontologia| doi = | year = 2001| volume = 16| issue = 1 |pages=63–75}} Its fossils are known from the Chasicoan and the Huayquerian periods, notably among Late Miocene rocks from the Arroyo Chasicó Formation and the Cerro Azul Formation of Argentina.{{Cite journal | last1 = Montalvo| first1 = C. I. | last2 = Tomassini| first2 = R. L.|last3 = Sostillo| first3 = R.| last4 = Cerdeño| first4 = E.| last5 = Verzi| first5 = D. H.| last6 = Visconti| first6 = G.| last7 = Folguera| first7 = A.| last8 = Schmidt| first8 = G. I.|title = A Chasicoan (late Miocene) vertebrate assemblage from Cerro Azul Formation, central Argentina. Geomorphological and biochronological considerations | journal = Journal of South American Earth Sciences| year = 2019 | volume = 95| page = 102218 | doi = 10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102218 | bibcode = 2019JSAES..9502218M | s2cid = 189976661 }}