Stamps Portraying Paleontology

The stamp from the German Democratic Republic shows a fossil of the pterosaur Pterodactylus kochi from the Museum für Naturkunde in East Berlin. 1973, Scott #1446..

Sorry, I did not mean to mislead you. The country changed on
October 3,1990

Thanks Fifia

Hi lithograving, I am enjoying reading the forums and "digging" through my collection for submissions

The German Archaeopteryx stamp is based on a fossil in the Smithsonian I think. I wonder if this is the first fossil found? There is a photo of it on Flickr:

(Reproduced under CC license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Photographer "linden_tea" on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/linden.../6118117536/.)

Here you can see the amazing wings.

I agree, it's fun to look at a sparrow and think "descendent of T-Rex"!

Yes scifi7 the whole thing is really interesting

The first Archaeopteryx's fossil remains were discovered in Solnhofen,Bavaria as already mentioned by fifia.

It actually relates to stamps or at least as far as printing them because the quarry was mined for it's smooth limestone slabs which were necessary in the lithographic printing process invented in 1798 by the Bavarian author Alois Senefelder.

From the Greek lithos 'stone' and graphein 'to write'

Here are a couple more from Czechoslovakia one of which nethryk
showed on the previous page.

Hypophylloceras bizonatum
Ammonites, an extinct type of molluscs

Scott 1559




Chlamys Gigas
Not 100% sure but I believe it was a giant shell.

Scott 1562

Still on the paper!

The only paleontology-related stamps from Singapore were these 1998 ATM stamps. 3 designs issued in sheets of 15, showing North American dinosaurs.




Pentaceratops, from late Mesozoic.
Apatosaurus (previously called Brontosaurus) from the Jurassic period.
Albertosaurus, a relative of T.Rex, from late Cretaceous.

1992

Comoro Islands 1994

Had to borrow an image of this one, can't seem to find my copy of the stamp.

What is going on? Why is my posting deleted? What happened to the German guy?

Germany 2011 "150 years of discovery prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx"

The prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossil in the World. It was described in 1861 based on one feather cast. Later one when some completed speciments found it was very importnat evidence of Theory of Evolution. As intermediate specie from Dinosaurs to Birds Archaeopteryx has some bird and reptilie specific parts in his skeleton. Ancestor of Archaeopteryx was a small predator dinosaur. All fossils of Archaeopteryx are founded so far are comming from Solnhofener Plattenkalken at Fraenkischen Jura region of Bavaria state, in Germany. They are about 150 M. years old. The best fossile exemplar ist stored in Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin.