The crater partly overlies the older and smaller Pontécoulant E along the southern rim, and has several tiny craterlets on the eastern inner wall and one to the southwest.

The inner floor is nearly flat, with some rough ground near the southern rim and some low central peaks located southwest of the midpoint.

[1] The eponym of this crater is Philippe Gustave Doulcet, le Comte de Pontécoulant, and the name was approved by the IAU in 1935.

[2] On 19 August 2023 the Russian Luna 25 lander crashed on the inner rim of the Pontécoulant G satellite crater, following a technical issue that prevented it from performing a soft landing in the target destination close to the Lunar south pole.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Pontécoulant.