Morocco
1998
"Dinosaur of Tilougguite"
Issue Date |
18.10.1988 |
ID |
Michel: 1134
Scott: 655 Stanley
Gibbons: 744 Yvert:
1046 UPU: N/A Category: pR |
Author |
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Stamps in set |
1 |
Value |
2.00 D., Cetiosaurus
mogrebiensis. |
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Layout |
25 stamps per sheet |
Products |
FDC x 1 |
Paper |
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Perforation |
13x13 |
Print Technique |
Photogravure, multicolor
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Issuing Authority |
Barid Al-Maghrib (?) |
The stamp depict reconstruction of Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis ,
found near Tilougguite city in Morocco. This specie
is described by French paleontologist Albert-Felix de Lapparent in
1955, who undertook a number of fossil-hunting explorations
in the Sahara desert. (Lapparent contributed greatly to our knowledge
of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. In 1986, Jos Bonaparte
named the dinosaur Lapparentosaurus in his honour.)
Cetiosaurus was a long-necked quadrupedal animal approximately 18
meters (59 ft) long. Its neck was as long as its body, and the tail was
considerably longer, consisting of at least 40 caudal vertebrae. Its
dorsal vertebrae, the bones along the back, were heavy and primitive,
unlike the hollowed-out bones of advanced sauropods like Brachiosaurus.
Its forearm, too, was as long as the upper arm, unlike most other
sauropods. Its thigh bone was approximately six feet in length.
The bones of this animal, the first sauropod described, were unearthed
three decades before the term "dinosaur" was coined by Sir Richard
Owen. Before then, it was believed to have been an enormous marine
creature resembling either a crocodile or a whale. Owen and other
scientists continued to believe so until the late 1860s, when Thomas
Huxley named it a dinosaur after the discovery of more bones.
Cetiosaurus (meaning 'whale lizard'), was a fairly primitive sauropod,
with species in what is now England and Morocco, and relatives as far
away as India and South America.
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