a. Geol. [f. prec. + -IAN.] The distinctive epithet of the group of strata represented by the faluns; upper Miocene.
1851. G. F. Richardson, Geol. (1855), 321. A great many fossil species of the existing genus Cervus, are found in the falunian, sub-apennine, and diluvial stages of both continents.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, xxii. 430. About one-fifth of the mollusca of the Falunian or Upper Miocene strata of Europe, belonged to living species.
