Brasilestes
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| Brasilestes Temporal range:
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| 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]
Description
[edit | edit source]Brasilestes is noted to be relatively large for a Mesozoic mammal, with a length speculated at around 50 cm.[2]
Classification
[edit | edit source]Brasilestes is a tribosphenic mammal. It is tentatively assigned to Eutheria due to contemporary eutherian remains in the Adamantina Formation.[3]
Palaeoecology
[edit | edit source]Brasilestes occurs in the Adamantina Formation, alongside a plethora of dinosaur and notosuchian taxa. Contemporary mammals include eutherians, gondwanatheres and meridiolestidans.[3]
References
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