Show Your "Fossilized Stamps" - Fossils On Stamps And Covers

COAL is also a fossil !
There are many stamps relating to coal mining, but few showing the real material:
1. Faroe Islands 2024. More information here: https://en.stamps.fo/ShopItem/_STAM...PA001013/STK


2. UK 1976. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hepburn

Thank you very much, Barbour, for your contribution. I have several stamps in my collection show petrified wood and will show them all with time. One stamp shows fossil wood you can see among this set:

Fossils, issued by Zimbabwe on July 21, 1998.

- Fossil Fish
- Allosaurus dinosaur footprints
- Fossil foot of Massospondylus dinosaur
- Fossil wood

Karoo Fossils, issued by South Africa on December 1, 1982:

The rocks of the Karoo Sequence cover approximately half of the surface of the Republic of South Africa. These rocks contain one of the most complete records of the evolution of land animals during the Permian and Triassic Periods about 250 to 150 million years ago. These fossils occur in great abundance and have drawn the attention of scientists from all over the world. This set of stamps shows reconstruction of prehistoric animals based on fossils discovered in Karoo.

- Bradysaurus
- Lystrosaurus
- Euparkeria
- Thrinaxodon





FDC and information in next post.

FDC of the above SS shows Karoo fossils. The cachet shows fossils of Heterodontosaurus, small dinosaur.

Information sheet inside the FDC.

Euparkeria visiting Israel.

Meter postmarks issued in France, all publicizing Geological Reserves:

- Geologic reserve de Hte Provence:

- Thouars - history and prehistory:

- Geologic reserve L'Hettangien:

- "Villers sur Mer, La Cote Fleurie"

Otodus megalodon (meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, from the Early Miocene to the Early Pliocene epochs.

Megalodon tooth fossil, issued for use in New Caledonia on March 19, 1999:

Similar tooth fossil on the bottom stamp of the SS:

Messel Pit (I)

The Messel Pit (German: Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, Germany. The Messel Pit is the richest site in the world of fossils from the Eocene, between 57 million and 36 million years ago. Over 1400 taxa of plants, fungi and animals have been documented at the site. Significant scientific discoveries about the early evolution of mammals and birds are still being made at there, and the site has increasingly become a tourist site as well. The Messel Pit was declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage nature site in 1995.

A set of two stamps depicting Messel's fossils was issued in Germany on July 13, 1978:

Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon, an extinct genus of bat from the Middle Eocene of Europe.

200Pf. Propalaeotherium messelense, an early genus of equid (Horse family), endemic to Europe and Asia during the Middle Eocene.

Commemorative FD postmark shows (probably) horse family fossil:

Commercial covers:

Messel Pit (II)

Three German postmarks show fossil skeletons founded in Messel Pit (Grube Messel) in Germany:

Small horse skeleton fossil, Nature museum, Dortmund, 1980:

Small horse skeleton fossil (probably) same as the FD postmark I posted in the previous post, PC sent from Messel, 1980:

Elephant skeleton fossil, Munich, 1978:

Messel Pit (III)

Fossilized Diplocynodon crocodile (Diplocynodon darwini) founded in Messel Pit, issued by Germany on August 20, 1998:

Prehistoric Life in Canada (II), designed by Rolf Harder, engraved by Larry Bloss and issued by Canada on April 5, 1991:

- Foord's Crossopt (Eusthenopteron foordi), Fish fossil, Devonian Period
- Fossil conodonts jawless vertebrates, Palaeozonic Era
- Archaeopteris halliana, early tree fossil, Devonian Period
- Hylonomus lyelli land reptile, Carboniferous Period

Fossils, designed by Lambert Kriedemann and issued by Namibia on May 24, 1995:

- Fossil tortoise shell (Geochelone stromeri)
- Fossil Ward's diamond bird eggs (Diamantornis wardi)
- Fossil Hyrax skull (Prohyrax hendeyi)
- Fossil crocodile skull (Crocodylus lloydi)


The 80c. stamp, Ward's diamond bird eggs, issued also as a small SS.

Fossil of extinct frog family (Paleobatrachus diluvianus), issued by DDR on October 24, 1978 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Dresden Science Museum.

Issued as one in a set of six shows different Items displayed in the museum. Here is the set on two different FDC's sent registered to addresses in Germany.


Part of the set on a commercial cover sent from Berlin Erlangen.

Fossils, designed by the Italian artist David Vangelli and issued by Somalia on May 2, 1997. These stamps are legal stamps of Somalia and are listed in leading catalogues.

Fish, trilobite, feather star and plant fossils.

Fossils of Korea, issued by North Korea on August 10, 1994.

- Fossil of Onsong fish, 140 MY ago.
- Fossil of Metasequoia leaf, dawn redwood tree, 30 MY ago.
- Fossil of Mammoth teeth, 600,000 years ago.
- Fossil of "Korean Archaeopteryx", 150 MY ago.




Issued in three different mini-sheets.

Pro Patria is a Swiss charitable organization collects donations to support national activities in different field. Switzerland issued several semi-postal stamps in which the extra value was a donation to the organization.

During years 1958-1961 four Pro Patria sets were issued show fossils and minerals. Five different fossil stamps were issued show fossil of ammonite, retile, shell, fish and fern.