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from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, noting a stage or group of the Pliocene Tertiary in the northern Apennines of Italy, constituted of fluviolacustrine sands and clays, with shells indicating a moist, warm climate, and with remains of Rhinoceros and Mastodon. Below it lies the Astian group with marine or estuarine fossils.
- noun The Villafranchian stage or group.
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The site has internationally important Pleistocene (Villafranchian) fossil deposits in late Tertiary and early Quaternary outcrops on the northern shore.
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Notes sur les fouilles paléontologiques exécutées en 1947, 1948 et 1949 dans le gisement Villafranchian de la Garaet Ichkeul.
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New hominin genus Hominidae: gracile Villafranchian hominids of Africa.
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