Stamps Portraying Paleontology

Fascinating topic and wonderful stamps and covers! Thanks for starting this thread, lithograving!

Thanks t360.


Canada issued a series about Prehistoric Life in the early 1990's in se-tenant blocks of four.


Starting with The Age of Primitive Life


Scott/Unitrade 1279 - 1282 1990





TRILOBITE




SEA SCORPION





FOSSIL ALGAE




SOFT INVERTEBRATE

I don't have the second issued in 1991 which portrayed Fossils.
Perhaps some one could post scans of their copies.



The third set issued in 1993 showed Dinosaurs.

Canada
Scott/Unitrade 1495 - 1498




Massospondylus (Jurassic Period)





Styracosaurus (Cretaceous Period)






Albertosaurus (Cretaceous Period)





Platecarpus (Cretaceous Period)

The final series of Prehistoric Life In Canada was issued in 1994
and shows examples in The Age of Mammals.

Canada
Scott/Unitrade 1529 - 1532





Coryphodon (Eocene Epoch)





Megacerops (Oligocene Epoch)





Short Faced Bear ( Pleistocene Epoch)






Wolly Mammoth ( Pleistocene Epoch)

It looks to me that there are only males? No females back then?



China web photo

Fifia you asked:


Here is Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) without women like her, non
of us would be here.




https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...6745696.html

You are killing me! another Lucy!!

What about Venus?

Litho: people travelling by car across Canada have to pass through Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park, which is located west of Thunder Bay, Ontario. In doing so, they passed by the 2 billion year old fossil algae bearing rock site associated with what is called the Gunflint Formation (Canada Scott#1281).

From Messel



There is a Dino Stamp website

http://dinostampnews.wordpress.com/#

A recent issue from Germany, 11th August 2011, 150 years since the discovery of Archaeopteryx:



scifi7

Pterodactylus
("Flying finger") is a genus of small short tailed Flugsaurier (Pterodactyloidea). Fossils found at Weymouth in England in the stone quarries of Solnhofen and Mörnsheim in Bavaria as well as in Tendaguru in Tanzania. Probably lived Pterodactylus on sea and river banks, and ate small fish and other small animals.

This stamp was published by the Deutsche Post of the GDR or the Soviet occupation zone. On 3 October 1990.

That German Archaeopteryx is a nice stamp scifi7, thanks for showing it.

When I first read many years ago that some Dinosaurs had feathers it blew my mind & started a life long interest in Paleontology.

It also made me pensive whenever I eat chicken.

Fifia, do you know what year that DDR was issued.

It definitely wasn't on October 3, 1990, since the last DDR stamps
Michel 3364-3365 (Schliemann) were issued on October 2, 1990.

I can't find it in Michel.

Palaeobatrachus ('ancient frog') was a primitive frog from the Cretaceous and Tertiary period (130-5 million years ago), fossils of which are commonly found in Central Europe. Here is an image of a stamp depicting a basalt formation and the fossilized skeleton of a Palaeobatrachus grandipes, designed by Czech artist Jaroslav Lukavský (1924-1984), combined engraved by Bedrich Housa and photogravure, and issued by Czechoslovakia on August 8, 1968 as one of five stamps publicizing the 23rd International Geological Congress, Prague, August 8 to September 3, Scott No. 1560.

- nethryk

Don't have any stamps to show, but here's a great web page with paleontologists on stamps. Includes my favourite, Edward Drinker Cope. His skull has been preserved as the ultimate example of homosapien. What greater honour for a man in his....field.

http:// (20120222) Not Allowed /stamps_paleontologist.html