Canada
Paleontology related stamps (dinosaurs, prehistoric animals, fossils and fossil found places)
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Canada is very reach country of fossils of Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Many fossil found paces and natural history museums are there.
Read here about Postage stamps and postal history of Canada
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[1] On October 10, 1993, only three month after release of "Jurassic Park" movie, three commonwealth countries: Australia, Canada and New Zealand issued dinosaur stamps.
[2] Fossil found site: Joggins Fossil Cliffs and Miguasha National Park are depicted on UNESCO Workd Heritage Sites stamps from 2014
Nearly 400
million years ago, today’s Miguasha
National Park,
Quebec(right) on the Gaspé Peninsula
was once a tropical estuary. The fossil beds of the
Escuminac Formation, exposed in a seaside cliff provide a rare portrait
of Devonian life – including 21 species of fish fossils that
have made Miguasha famous.
Nearly 200 fossil species found in the Joggins Fossil Cliffs (left) reveal the world’s most complete record of terrestrial life from the Pennsylvanian Period (the Coal Age), over 300 million years ago. Here is possible to find fossilized reptiles and amniotes, the first vertebrates to reproduce on land, marking one of the most significant events in the evolution of life on Earth.
Nearly 200 fossil species found in the Joggins Fossil Cliffs (left) reveal the world’s most complete record of terrestrial life from the Pennsylvanian Period (the Coal Age), over 300 million years ago. Here is possible to find fossilized reptiles and amniotes, the first vertebrates to reproduce on land, marking one of the most significant events in the evolution of life on Earth.
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[3] Fossil found site: Dinosaur Provincial Park, in the badlands of southeastern Alberta, contains some of the most important fossil discoveries of more than 40 dinosaur species dating back to the Late Cretaceous Period, 75 million years ago.
On
July 3,
2015 Canada Post
launched the third set of stamps of UNESCO
World Heritage sites in Canada serie. On July 7,
Officials at Canada Post have issued a recall on a stamp featuring
Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, because of a
big problem. The error comes from the image used on the stamp, which is
of a set of hoodoos (left) , a rock formation found in the provincial
park,
located just north of Brooks, Alberta. The problem is that the image on
the stamp is actually of hoodoos that exist east of Drumheller, a
community about an hour and a half northwest of Brooks. Canada Post has
apologized for the error and is recalling the stamps from all post
offices so they can be destroyed. A new stamp, with a correct picture,
issued on August 21 (right). More info is here
[4] Fossil found site: Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta and Mistaken Point
The
first stamp on the mini sheet shows Dinosaur Provincial Park
in
Alberta (the
same design as in 2015). Dinosaur Provincial Park is known
for its remarkable fossil
specimens that represent every known group of Cretaceous dinosaurs,
as well as its impressive area of virtually undisturbed badlands and
riparian (riverside) habitat.At Mistaken Point (the second stamp on the mini sheet), the rugged coastal cliffs host the oldest known collection of large fossils in the world, marking the world’s first appearance of large, biologically complex organisms.
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[O1] The first stamp on the Mini Sheet is dedicated to IMAX movies. Tyrannosaurus, perhaps from Jurassic Park movie is depicted on the middle of the stamp.
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