Welcome to Paleophilatelie web site about Paleontology and its representation in Philately

Paleophilatelie is a topical collecting of post stamps and another kind of philatelic material (covers, post cards, postal stationery, post marks etc.) depicted dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals or plants, fossils, fossil found sites, humans ancestors, paleontologists and contributors to the science as well as some museums with significant paleontological collections.
In other worlds this site is about representation of Paleontology in Philately.

What is not included here ? Unofficial, illegal items (Cinderella) not recognized as official post stamps, stamps depicted dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals and plants in joke, cartoon, children painting or paleontology not related contents such as illustration of Juiles_Verne stories for example.

The basement of this website is a stamp Catalogue
Currently this catalogue shows images of over 1000 stamps of almost 200 countries that related to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, early mankind, paleontologists, paleontologic and paleoantropologic museums, fossils and fossils found sites, contributors to Paleoanthropology and Paleoanthropology sciences such as Charles Darwin, Carl Linne. Later on, other philately related objects such as postal stationery, postmarks, meter franking will be added there.
Click on a preview image to see bigger one (mostly high resolution) or to be redirected to description page, when available, that contain technical and backround informations as well as images of some related philatelic products.
For more convenient use, the catalogue are organized in Chronological and Country base orders.

Chronology: all Paleontology and Paleoanthropology stamps (dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossilsm early mankind, paleontologists ...) are sorted per date of issue, in chronological descending order. List of most recent stamps and announcement of feature issues are shown on the current year page.

The following chronological pages are available:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1970-1974, 1960-1969, 1950-1959, 1857-1949

Country: all Paleontology and Paleoanthropology stamps (dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossilsm early mankind, paleontologists ...), on some pages also other philatelic objects such as postmarks and post stationaries, issued by the country shown on the page in increasing order.

Click on a letter to see country list with name started of the letter:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Galleries: here you can see images of various Philatelic objects such as post stamps, First Day Covers (FDC), Commemorative Postmarks and meter franking, commercially used covers and postcards, related Paleoantology and Paleoanthropology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, their fossils, as well as paleontologits and contributors to both sciences. Click on preview image to see a bigger one. On this moment four gallaeries are available:

• Stamps: almost 830 images of official stamps depicted dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, prehistoric plants, fossils, paleontologists and paleoanthropoligists as well as some contributors to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology since, Charles Darwin for example, can be seen there. Images of all stamps ahown on one page, in case of slow connection speed it can take a little while to load it properly.
   
• FDC(First Day Cover): almost 800 images of official and privately produced FDC depicted dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, prehistoric plants, fossils, paleontologists and paleoanthropoligists as well as some contributors to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology since, Charles Darwin for example, can be seen there. Images of all FDC ahown on one page, in case of slow connection speed it can take a little while to load it properly.
   
• Postal circulate Covers and Postcard: almost 400 images of circulate Covers and Postcard depicted dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, prehistoric plants, fossils, paleontologists and paleoanthropoligists as well as some contributors to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology since, Charles Darwin for example, can be seen there. Images of all covers and cards ahown on one page, in case of slow connection speed it can take a little while to load it properly.
   
• Commemorative Postmarks and Meter Franking: almost 450 images of commemorative postmarks and meter franking depicted dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, prehistoric plants, fossils, paleontologists and paleoanthropoligists as well as some contributors to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology since, Charles Darwin for example, can be seen there. Images of all commemorative postmarks and meter franking ahown on one page, in case of slow connection speed it can take a little while to load it properly.
   

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