Mistralestes, Tabuce & Tortosa & Vianey-Liaud & Garcia & Lebrun & Godefroit & Dutour & Berton & Valentin & Cheylan, 2013

Tabuce, Rodolphe, Tortosa, Thierry, Vianey-Liaud, Monique, Garcia, Géraldine, Lebrun, Renaud, Godefroit, Pascal, Dutour, Yves, Berton, Sévérine, Valentin, Xavier & Cheylan, Gilles, 2013, New eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Aix-en-Provence Basin, south-eastern France, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (3), pp. 653-672 : 663

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12074
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA5F26-FFF2-D603-7468-8339EA4EFF7E
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Mistralestes
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

MISTRALESTES GEN. NOV.

Type species: Mistralestes arcensis sp. nov., late Campanian , Aix-en-Provence Basin, south-eastern France .

Diagnosis: As for the type-species.

Etymology: From Mistral (name of the strong wind affecting south-eastern France), which signifies ‘the

master’ in Provençal, a language spoken in southern France; and the Greek lestes, robber, pirate.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Proteutheria
Family	Zhelestidae

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