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.