diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/IR/BuiltinTypes.h b/mlir/include/mlir/IR/BuiltinTypes.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/IR/BuiltinTypes.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/IR/BuiltinTypes.h
@@ -443,10 +443,6 @@
   return type.isa<MemRefType, UnrankedMemRefType>();
 }
 
-inline bool BaseMemRefType::isValidElementType(Type type) {
-  return type.isIntOrIndexOrFloat() || type.isa<ComplexType, VectorType>();
-}
-
 inline bool FloatType::classof(Type type) {
   return type.isa<BFloat16Type, Float16Type, Float32Type, Float64Type,
                   Float80Type, Float128Type>();
diff --git a/mlir/lib/IR/BuiltinTypes.cpp b/mlir/lib/IR/BuiltinTypes.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/IR/BuiltinTypes.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/IR/BuiltinTypes.cpp
@@ -472,6 +472,10 @@
 // BaseMemRefType
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
+bool BaseMemRefType::isValidElementType(Type type) {
+  return type.isIntOrIndexOrFloat() || type.isa<ComplexType, VectorType>();
+}
+
 unsigned BaseMemRefType::getMemorySpace() const {
   return static_cast<ImplType *>(impl)->memorySpace;
 }
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Parser/TypeParser.cpp b/mlir/lib/Parser/TypeParser.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Parser/TypeParser.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Parser/TypeParser.cpp
@@ -219,8 +219,7 @@
     return nullptr;
 
   // Check that memref is formed from allowed types.
-  if (!elementType.isIntOrIndexOrFloat() &&
-      !elementType.isa<VectorType, ComplexType>())
+  if (!BaseMemRefType::isValidElementType(elementType))
     return emitError(typeLoc, "invalid memref element type"), nullptr;
 
   // Parse semi-affine-map-composition.