France
Paleontology related stamps (dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, paleontologists, contributor to Paleontology science etc.)

10-17.05.1969  "Famous persons" [3]	15.10.1977 "100 anniversary of Abbe Breuil" [4]	23.05.1981 "100 anniversary of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin " [5]
20.6.1992"Tautavel Man"	17.06.2000 "Natural History Museum" [6]	21.08.2008 "Prehistoric animals"
01.06.2010 "Institute of Human Paleontology"  [7]	04.01.2014 "Dynamic" [8]	05.01.2018 "Works of Nature"

Notes:
[1]  Georges Buffon (1709-1788) depicted on stamp with face value of 12+4F  He envisioned the nature of science and understood the roles of paleontology, zoological geography, and animal psychology. He realized both the necessity of transformism and its difficulties. Although his cosmogony was inadequate and his theory of animal reproduction was weak, and although he did not understand the problem of classification, he did establish the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked.Buffon is considered the founder of evolutionary theory. George Buffon set forth his general views on species classification in the first volume of his "Histoire Naturelle".Buffon objected to the so-called "artificial" classifications of Andrea Cesalpino and Carolus linnaeus, stating that in nature the chain of life has small gradations from one type to another and that the discontinuous categories are all artificially constructed by mankind.

[2] Bernard Palissy (1510–1589) depicted on stamp with face value of 12+3F.who was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. In the 19th-century, Palissy's pottery became the inspiration for Mintons Ltd's Victorian majolica, which was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 under the name "Palissy ware".Palissy is known for his contributions to the natural sciences, and is famous for discovering principles of geology, hydrology and fossil formation.He was one of the first Europeans to enunciate the correct theory of the origin of fossils Palissy correctly maintained that fossils were the remains of once living organisms, and contested the prevailing view that they had been produced by the biblical flood, or by astrological influence. He argued that minerals, dissolving into water to form "congelative water," would precipitate and thereby petrify once living organisms in order to create fossils.

[3]  Some catalogs listed these 3 stamps as a set, some other as individual stamps.  Pink stamp shows  Georges Cuvier (1769-1852), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. He is well known for establishing extinction as a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century, and opposing the evolutionary theories of Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. His most famous work is the Le Rgne Animal (1817; English: The Animal Kingdom).  In 1800, Cuvier was the first to correctly identify in print, working only from a drawing, a fossil found in Bavaria as a small flying reptile, which he named the Ptero-Dactyle in 1809 (later Latinized as Pterodactylus antiquus)--the first known member of the diverse order of pterosaurs. In 1808 Cuvier identified a fossil found in Maastricht as giant marine lizard, which he named Mosasaurus, the first known mosasaur. Cuvier speculated that there had been a time when reptiles rather than mammals had been the dominant fauna.

 [4]  Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (1877-1961) , often referred to as Abbe Breuil, was a French archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He is noted for his studies of cave art in the Somme and Dordogne valleys as well as in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, China with Teilhard de Chardin, Ethiopia, Somaliland and especially Southern Africa. 

[5] Pierre Teilhard de Chadrin (1881-1955)  was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere. Some of his ideas came into conflict with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and several of his books were censured.
From 1912 to 1914, Teilhard worked in the paleontology laboratory of the Muse National d'Histoire Naturelle, in Paris, studying the mammals of the middle Tertiary period. Later he studied elsewhere in Europe.

[6] Natural History Museum in Paris is one of the oldest natural history museums in the world, has very big fossils collection of prehistoric humand and prehistoric animals, include dinosaurs. On them depicted on stamp from 2000.

[7] joint issue with Monaco



[8] On January 6, 2014 Post Authority of France issued a booklet of 12 self adhesive stamps  with permanent validity and costs of the domestic  priority letter up to 20 gr.  Dynamic lines, swirling movement of life, in nature, in construction, in craft in art . The booklet  highlights the mystery of motion, especially that of the spiral.  One of these stamp is depicted an ammonite.
"Ammonites were free-swimming molluscs of the ancient oceans, living around the same time that the dinosaurs walked the Earth and disappearing during the same extinction event. They came in a range of sizes, from tiny species only a couple of centimetres across, to large ones reaching over two metres in diameter. The animal would have lived in the last and largest of a chain of spiralled chambers. Filling these chambers with fluid or gas allowed the ammonite to sink like a stone to avoid predators, though ammonite shells with toothmarks on them have been found, evidence that it didn't always work. Fossilised shells are usually, but not always, beautiful spirals." BBC

Some personalized stamps related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, prehistoric humans, paleontologists

11.05.2008	xx.xx.2010	23.11.2011
09.12.2014	19.05.2016	02.02.2018 "150 anniversary since death of Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes"

14.11.1949  "Famous persons" [1]	15.06.1957  "Famous persons" [2]	13.04.1969 "Cave painting of Lascaux cave"
17.01.1978 "Zodiac" [A1]	17.07.1979 "Tourism"	12.01.1981 "Historical Constructions" [A2]
05.06.1993 "Bicentennial of Natural History Museum" [6]	27.05.2006 "50 years since discovery of cave painting of prehistoric animals of Grotte de Rouffignac"

Notes:
 [A1] During 1977 and 1978 (01.04.1977,  17.01.1978, 01.07.1978) Post of France issued a set Zodiac definitive stamps. Each time 4 stamps are printed.  Ammonite depicted on the right buttom corner of  the Crab stamp.

  [A2] Part of  set of 4 stamps    



Commemorative postmarks and meter franking of France related to Paleontology:   dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, prehistoric humans, paleontologists

1963-1965 "Centenary of prehistory in Perigord" [Sp]	1963 - 1983 (?)  "LES EYZIES high place of prehistory"  [PM]	1965-1975 (?) "Center of prehistory in Perigord" [PM]
1969  - 2005 "Villers sur Mer, La Cote Fleurie" [PM]	1967 -1999 "Grotte de Niaux" [PM]	31.07-04.08.1971 "Centenary of Edouard LARTET SEISSAN" [Sp]
17.05.1969 "200 anniversary of Georges Cuvier" [FDC]	21.06- 18.09.1976  "IX congress international union prehistoric and protohistoric sciences in Nice, 13-18 September 1976" [Sp] -	12.09-18.09.1976  "IX congress international union prehistoric and protohistoric sciences in Nice" [Sp] -
23.04.1977 "Centenary of JEAN. Bouyssonie,  who dscovered  the Man from La Chapelle aux Saints in 1908" [Sp] -	1979-1980 "4th Mineral and Fossils exhibition show in Bourgogne" [Sp] -	16.03.1980 "Mineral and Fossils exhibition in Saint Nazaire" [Sp] -
1980 "10th international Mineral and Fossils trade show in Colmar" [Sp]	23.05.1981 "R.P. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin" [FDC] [5]	1981 - 1991 "Prehistorc museum of Tautavel" [PM]
11.03.1982 - 1986  "Cave painting at Les Eyzies"  [PM] -	1982 - 2001 "200.000 years of  BIACHE ST VAAST" [PM]	28.09.1982  "1st international congress of human paleontology in Nice"
22.09.1983  "6th biennial Mineral and Fossils exhibition in Bordeaux" [Sp]	10-11.12. 1983 "6th biennial Mineral and Fossils philatelic exhibition in Bordeaux" [Sp]	07.07.1984 "3rd biennial Mineral and Fossils exhibition in Thionville" -
08.09.1984 "3rd biennial Mineral and Fossils exhibition in  Thionville" [Sp] -	07.11.1984  "7th Mineral and Fossils exhibition in Bordeaux" [Sp]	07.11.1984  "7th Mineral and Fossils philatelic exhibition in Bordeaux" [Sp]
03.08.1985  "450.00 years of Tautavel man" [Sp]	18-19.1986  "X anniversary of philatelic club in Angevin" [Sp]	1986  "9th Mineral and Fossils exhibition in Poitiers" [Sp]
1987  - 1988  "Geologic Reserve  DE LORRAINE" [PM]	13.06.1987 "Open of Fleury dinosaur museum"	1987 "Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Dijon"  [Sp]
1987  "Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Nantes Rollin"   [Sp]	07.11.1987 "Association Nantaise Pierres et Fossile" [Sp]	23.09.1988 "14th Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Blois Gare" [Sp]
1988 "Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Dijon" [Sp]	05.10.1988 "200 anniversary of Boucher de Perthes" [Sp]	06.10.1988 "200 anniversary of Boucher de Perthes" [Sp]
09.10.1988 "Exhibition Philately and Mineralogy" [Sp]	14.03.1989 "200 anniversary of Georges Cuvier" [Sp]	1989 - 2007  "Thouars history and prehistory" [PM]
11.06.1989 "200 anniversary of Georges Cuvier" [Sp]	xx.08.1989 "12th Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Surgeres"  [Sp]	1989 "Minerals and Fossils trade show in Dijon" [Sp]
06.08.1990 "13th Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Surgeres"  [Sp] -	1990-2008 "Geological reserve  de HTE Provence"  [Sp]	02.04.1990 "3rd Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Valognes"  [Sp]
28.08.1990 "Neanderthal from  La-Chapelle-aux-Saints"  [Sp]	20.06.1992  "Prehistoric man of Tautavel"  [FDC]	1992 "10th   Mineral and Fossils exhibition in  Thionville" [Sp]
21-22.11.1992 "Prehistoric man of Tautavel"  [Sp]	1993-1999 "Nolay in 225 million years" [PM]	1993 "18th Mineral and Fossils exhibition in Nancy"  [Sp]
1993-1996  "Geologic Reserve  Ligne Maginot " [PM]	07.11.1993 "Philatelic exhibit in Bernay" [Sp] -	1993  - 1996  "Fleury Museum" [PM]
27.01.1994  "3rd Amiens Archeology Film Festival" [Sp]	16-17.04.1994 "52nd Regional Philatelic congress in Champagnole"  [Sp]	19.11.1994 "Archeologic club of Valence" -
1996 -2006  "Faluns's fossil museum" [PM]	09.04.1997 "22nd  Minerals and Fossils trade show in St. Nazaire"  [Sp]	26-27.04.1997  "55th  Regional Philatelic congress in Montceau les Mines"   [Sp]
1998 - 2000 "Dinosaur museum in Esperaza" [PM]	13.03.1999 "Fossils and Shells exhibition in Jalons"  [Sp]	22-23.12.1999  "Polar expedition of Mammoth"  [Sp]
xx.03 -29.05.2000 "25th Minerals and Fossils exhibition in St. Nazaire" [Sp] -	17.06.2000   "Allosaurus" [FDC]	07-08.10.2000  "19th  Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Nantes"  [Sp]
01.04 -10.06.2001 "26th Minerals and Fossils exhibition in St. Nazaire" [Sp]	19.05.2001  "Allosaurus"  [Sp]	16.06.2001 "Mammoth expedition"  [Sp] -
07.07.2004 "Tourist office at Villers sur Mer"  [Sp]	27.03.2006  "Grotte de Rouffignac"    [FDC]	2002-.2006 "FLAMME ART PREHISTORY CENTER ON MARIANNE LUQUET"  [Sp]
07.04.2007   "Open gallery of Georges Cuvier in Montbeliard"  [Sp]	12-13.05.2007  "28th  Minerals and Fossils exhibition in Thouars"  [Sp] -	19.04.2008  "Prehistoric animals" [FDC]
19.04.2008  "Prehistoric animals" [FDC]  -	19.04.2008  "Prehistoric animals" [FDC] -	19.04.2008  "Prehistoric animals" [FDC]
11.05.2008  "House of Marble and Geology in Rinxent"  [Sp]	16.07.2008 "Paleomania exhibition"  [Sp] -	22.07.2008  "Tautavel man"  [Sp]
01.06.2010 "Institut de paleontologie humaine" [FDC]	01.06.2010 "Institut de paleontologie humaine" [FDC]	23.11.2010 "Prehistory museum in les Eyzies" [Sp] -
17.05.2014  "50th annoiversary of philatelic society in Deigne les Bains" [Sp] -	22.07.2014  "50 anniversary of Tautavel men discovery" [Sp] -	09.12.2014  "100 anniversary of Saturnin Garimond" [Sp]
15.05.2017 ""Prehistory museum in les Eyzies" [Sp] -	02.02.2018  "150 anniversary since death of  Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes" [Sp]

Legend:
[FDC] - Post Marks used on FDC of official stamp
[PM] - Permanent postmark: available for a long period of time
[Sp] - Special postmark: issued for special event and was available for short period of time
[N] - new design of early introduced postmarks

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