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  • Two new species from Lutetian (middle Eocene) rocks of Egypt, Protocetus atavus and Eocetus schweinfurthi, were described by Eberhard Fraas in that year.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • These Lutetian boatmen handled the river traffic in all the territory drained by the Seine, Marne, and Oise.

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • Where the Lutetian Palace of Julian saluted their darling as Augustus, the sledge-hammer and the stucco of the Haussmann fiat bear desolation in their wake.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • French of Amiens is the kingly and courtly form of Christian speech, Paris lying yet in Lutetian clay, to develope into tile-field, perhaps, in due time.

    Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

  • Protocetidae are middle Eocene in age (Lutetian-Bartonian, 49-37 Ma), and comprise fifteen genera and 16 species that range from South Asia and Africa to North America

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  • Localities are in the upper part of the Habib Rahi Formation of early Lutetian age

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Let him consent to Roman freedom, and 'Madre Natura' will guarantee him against Lutetian barricades. "

    Lothair Benjamin Disraeli 1842

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