| Eotypotherium Temporal range: Early Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Mesotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Eotypotherium Croft, Flynn & Wyss, 2004 |
| Species: | †E. chico
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| †Eotypotherium chico Croft, Flynn & Wyss, 2004
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Eotypotherium is an extinct genus of mammal, belonging to the suborder Typotheria. It lived during the Early Miocene. Its fossilized remains were discovered in the Chucal Formation, in the Chilean altiplano, near the Salar de Surire, in South America.[1]
- ^ Croft, Darin A.; Flynn, John J.; Wyss, André R. (2004). "Notoungulata and Litopterna of the Early Miocene Chucal Fauna, Northern Chile" (PDF). Fieldiana Geology. 2004 (50): 1–52. doi:10.3158/0096-2651(2004)50[1:NALOTE]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0096-2651. S2CID 53986638.