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Meudon Formation

geologic formation in France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ17511723 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Meudon Formation is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in France

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Meudon Formation” as geologic formation in France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Meudon, Formation and geologic can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as geologic formation in France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17511723. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Meudon Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.