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Lutetian, a.|l(j)uːˈtiːʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. L. Lutēti-a an ancient city on the site of modern Paris + -an.]
Of or belonging to Lutetia or Paris; Parisian.
1740Somerville Hobbinol ii. 235 That Strength..Which..by your great Forefathers taught, [might] have fix'd The British Standard on Lutetian Tow'rs.
Add:2. Geol. [ad. F. lutétien (coined in A. de Lapparent Traité de Géol. (1883) II. 989).] Of, pertaining to, or designating the stage of the Eocene in western Europe which was followed by the Ypresian. Also absol., the Lutetian stage or period.
1895J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) iv. 925 The Calcaire grossier of Paris (Lutetian of Lapparent). 1903A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) II. 1236 Middle Eocene.—This division is so fully developed in the Paris basin that the name of Lutetian (from Lutetia, the old appellation of Paris) has been given to it. Ibid. 1237 The Lutetian stage of the Paris basin is regarded as the probable equivalent of the Lower Bagshot sands and the clays of Bracklesham and Bournemouth in the English Tertiary series. 1911Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXVII. 649 The Lutetian formation and its fauna are so well known in North African countries, that it is needless to go into particulars respecting their history. 1921Brit. Mus. Return 149 in Parl. Papers 1921 XXVII. 495 A shell of Fusus serratus from the Lutetian (middle Eocene) of Seine-et-Oise. 1967D. H. Rayner Stratigr. Brit. Isles xi. 349 Sometimes the Lutetian has been termed Middle Eocene and the stages above and below, Upper and Lower Eocene. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 227 The most commonly accepted stages include (from oldest to youngest) the Ypresian, Lutetian and Bartonian. 1991R. Goldring Fossils in Field viii. 156 (caption) The Middle Eocene, Lutetian and Bartonian, showing zonal schemes for various groups of fossils. |