Capens, Mas-d'Azil (Cretaceous of France)

Also known as Le Mas-d'Azil; La Mas d'Azil

Where: Occitanie, France (43.0° N, 1.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grès de Labarre Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper part of the Formation des Grès de Labarre, early Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; sandstone

• hard sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.-J. Pouech

Primary reference: E. Gheerbrant and D. Teodori. 2021. An enigmatic specialized new eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Western Europe (Northern Pyrenees). Comptes Rendus Palevol 20(13):207-223 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219170: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.03.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Tribosphenida - Zhelestidae
Azilestes ragei n. gen. n. sp.
Azilestes ragei n. gen. n. sp. Gheerbrant and Teodori 2021 eutherian
MNHN.F CTE215 - holotype