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.

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.