title: Brasilestes
text: # Brasilestes
  
  Brasilestes is an extinct genus of mammals from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of South America. Its type species, B. stardusti, is named after David Bowie.
  
  ## Description
  
  Brasilestes is noted to be relatively large for a Mesozoic mammal, with a length speculated at around 50 cm.
  
  ## Classification
  
  Brasilestes is a tribosphenic mammal. It is tentatively assigned to Eutheria due to contemporary eutherian remains in the Adamantina Formation.
  
  ## Palaeoecology
  
  Brasilestes occurs in the Adamantina Formation, alongside a plethora of dinosaur and notosuchian taxa. Contemporary mammals include eutherians, gondwanatheres and meridiolestidans.
  
  