Brazil
Dinosaurs, fossils, paleontologists on stamps and postmarks of Brazil

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Brazil officially the Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest country in both South America and the Latin American region.
Brazil has an area of 8.5 million square kilometers and population of over 211 million.
It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world and the only one in the Americas.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has land borders with Ecuador and Chile.
Between 1500 and 1822 Brazil was a Portuguese colony. In 1822 he Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, was establishd. [R1]

Brazil was the second country in the world, after Great Britain, to issue postage stamps valid within the entire country.
Like Great Britain's first stamps, the design does not include the country name.
The first stamps of Brazil were issued on 1 August 1843 and are known as "Bull's Eyes" due to their distinctive appearance.
On 1st July 1844 a new series was issued which is known as the slanted numeral series. For many years stamps from Brazil had "Brasil Correio" displayed on them. However today the trend is to just have the country name and year, e.g. Brasil 2000. [R2]

Example of Brazilian FDC from 2010 with illustration printed by collector or dealer Example of Brazilian FDC from 2016 Example of Brazilian FDC from 2014 Brazilian FDCs today are on white covers with no cachet or illustration. These FDCs are engraved with the name of the Post: Correios.
Some dealers and collectors uses the empty place on the left side of the cover to print their own images, to create more attractive FDCs.




Official stamps of Brazil related to Paleontology: dinosaurs, fossils, paleontologist

08.07.1975 "Archaeological Discoveries " [1] 06.06.1991 "Dinosaurs and Snakes" 23.07.1995 "Dinosaurs"
Fossil of prehistoric fish animals on stamp of Brazil 1975 Snakes and Dinosaurs on stamps of Brazil 1991 Dinosaurs on stamps of Brazil 1995
17.04.1999 "IBRA 99; Valley of the Dinosaurs" 14.06.2010 "Peter Wilhelm Lund, Danish paleontologist" 12.10.2014 "Prehistoric Animals of Brazil"
Dinosaurs and their footprint on stamps of Brazil 1999 Danish Paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund on stamp of Brazil 2010 Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals on stamps of Brazil 2014
21.11.2016 "Geopark Araripe"
Fossil of dragonfly and moth on stamps of Brazil 2016 Michel "Dinos - whole world" catalog 2019. Approx. 2500 colour illustrations and about 20 000 price quotations at approx. 328 paperback pages with Novelties up to MICHEL Rundschau 1/2019 have been catalogued in this edition

Notes:
[1] Fossil fish (Belonostomus comptoni) from Ceara, shown on one of the stamps.
Belonostomus (meaning "big long mouth") is a genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that was described by Louis Agassiz in 1844.
The fish lived between 99.6 million and 66 million years ago. [R3]

[2] Peter Wilhelm Lund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, archeologist and who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil.
He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology and archeology.
Lund was the first to describe dozens of species of pre-historic Pleistocene megafauna, including the fabled Saber-toothed cat Smilodon populator.
Peter Lund also made the then ground-breaking discovery that humans co-existed with the long-extinct animal species, something which possibly prompted him to terminate his scientific work. [R4]



Some personalized stamps of Brazil related to Paleontology: prehistoric animals

11.10.2013 "20 years of the discovery of the first fossil from Marilia" 12.12.2019 "Prehistoric animals of Parana region" [SP1] ??.??.?? "Valley of the Dinosaurs, Paraiba" [SP1]
Paleontologist William Roberto Nava with Titanosaurs dinosaur fossil on personalized stamp of Brazil 2013 Dinosaur and Pterosaur on personalized stamp of Brazil 2019 Noasaurids dinosaurs on personalized stamp of Brazil

Notes:
[SP1] issued in sheets of 12 (4x3) with increased images on the top.
These sheet is too big to feet to any standard stamp album and very inconviniet to store.


Commemorative postmarks of Brazil related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and its footprint, prehistoric animals, paleontologist.

Legend is here
14.06.1968 "167 years of Peter W. Lund" [Sp] [2] 14.08.1975 "Archaeological Discoveries" [Sp] [1] 07.08.1980 "3rd Philatelic show in Bauru" [Sp]
Paleontologist Peter Lund on commemorative postmark of Brazil 1968 Fossil fish (Belonostomus comptoni) from Ceara. on commemorative postmark of Brazil 1975 Sauropod dinosaur on commemorative postmark of Brazil 1979
25.05.1980 "100 years since death of Peter W. Lund" [Sp] [2] 26.05.1985 "Brapex VI - Peter W. Lund" [Sp] [2] 06.06.1991 "Dinosaurs and Snakes" [FDC]
Paleontologist Peter Lund on commemorative postmark of Brazil 1980 Paleontologist Peter Lund on commemorative postmark of Brazil 1980 Sauropod Dinosaur and Snakes on commemorative postmark of Brazil 1991
19.09- 26.09 1993 "13th Paleontologic congress" [Sp] 23.07.1995"Dinosaurs" [FDC] 23.09- 29.09 1995 "14th Paleontologic congress" [SP]
Dinosaur and prehistoric mammal on postmark of Brazil 1993 Dinosaur in egg on postmark of Brazil 1995 Dinosaur in egg on postmark stamps of Brazil 1995
21.06- 26.06 1998 "American Symposium of Silurian - Devonian periods" [SP] 17.04.1999 "IBRA 99; Valley of the Dinosaurs" [FDC] 14.06.2010"Peter Wilhelm Lund, Danish Paleontologist" [FDC]
Trilobite on postmark of Brazil 1998 Dinosaur and its footprint on postmark of Brazil 1999 Danish Paleontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund on postmark of Brazil 2010
11.10 - 09.11.2013 "20 years of the discovery of the first fossil from Marília" 12.10.2014"Prehistoric Animals of Brazil" [FDC]
Titanosaurs dinosaur on commemorative postmark of Brazil 2013 Dinosaur's footprint on commemorative postmark of Brazil 2014 Dinosaur's footprint on commemorative postmark of Brazil 2014
12.10.2014 "Prehistoric Animals of Brazil" [FDC] 21.11.2016 "Geopark Araripe" [FDC]
Dinosaur's footprint on commemorative postmark of Brazil 2014 Dinosaur's footprint on commemorative postmark of Brazil 2014 Continental drift on commemorative postmark of Geopark Araripe, Brazil 2016



References:
  [R1] Brazil:   [R2] Postal History and Philately of Brazil:
  • Postal history of Brazil: Wikipedia
  • Links to official website of the Post Authority, stamp catalog and a list of new stamps of Brazil are here
  [R3] Belonostomus:   [R4] Peter Wilhelm Lund:

Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, for reviewing the draft page and his very valuable comments.


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