Borealestes is a genus of docodontan from the Middle Jurassic of Britain, first discovered on the Isle of Skye near the village of Elgol.

[1] The first fossil of Borealestes serendipitus was discovered by Michael Waldman during a school field trip he was leading on the Isle of Skye in 1971.

mussetti') was named from isolated molars found in the Bathonian aged Kirtlington Mammal bed of Oxfordshire, England.

It was named mussetti in honour of Frances Mussett, in recognition of her major participation in fossil excavation at Kirtlington Cement Quarry.

Docodontans are small (shrew to rat sized) mammaliaforms - the wider grouping that includes mammalians and their closest relatives.