Brasilestes Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Tribosphenida |
Genus: | †Brasilestes Castro et al., 2018 |
Species: | †B. stardusti
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Binomial name | |
†Brasilestes stardusti Castro et al., 2018
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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.[1][2]
Brasilestes is noted to be relatively large for a Mesozoic mammal, with a length speculated at around 50 cm.[2]
Brasilestes is a tribosphenic mammal. It is tentatively assigned to Eutheria due to contemporary eutherian remains in the Adamantina Formation.[3]
Brasilestes occurs in the Adamantina Formation, alongside a plethora of dinosaur and notosuchian taxa. Contemporary mammals include eutherians, gondwanatheres and meridiolestidans.[3]