Slovenia 1993 "Fossils of Dolzan Gorge: Schwagerina Carniolica"
| Issue Date | 07.05.1993 |
| ID | Michel: 50; Scott: 172; Stanley Gibbons: 206; Yvert et Tellier: 45; Category: pF |
| Design | Illustration: Mirko Majer, Stamp Design: Judita Skalar |
| Stamps in set | 1 |
| Value | T44.00 - Schwagerina Carniolica |
| Emission/Type | commemorative |
| Places of issue | Trzic |
| Size (width x height) | 28.80 x 40.32 mm |
| Layout | Sheet of 25 stamps |
| Products | FDC x1 |
| Paper | muflep 90g, gummed |
| Perforation | 13 x 14 |
| Print Technique | Offset lithography |
| Printed by | DELO - TISKARNA d. d., Ljubljana |
| Quantity | 150.000 |
| Issuing Authority | Posta Slovenije |
On May 7th, 1993, the Post Authority of Slovenia started the series of stamps, “Fossils of Slovenia”. The first stamp of the set shows Schwagerina Carniolica.
The following text was written by Prof.dr. Anton Ramovs and published on the website of Slovenia in 1993
The world known palaeontological locality in the Dolzan Gorge above Trzic offers to the visitor an inexhaustible wealth of various Lower Permian fossils. Solely the brachiopods amount to about 80 distinct species, and among these more than 20 species are new, first discovered and described from this locality. Extraordinary is also the richness of large foraminifers, several of which were first found here. One of these fossils is the sphaeric fusulinid Schwagerina Carniolica (Kahler & Kahler) - the Carniolian Schwagerina which was discovered in black limestone at the second turn of the road in the Dolzan Gorge, and described as new species in 1937. Its test is about 9.5 mm long and 8 mm wide. The animal lived about 280 million years ago, at the time when in the warm ancient sea the Lower Permian Pseudoschwagerina limestone was deposited.
Products and associated philatelic items
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| First-Day-of-Issue Postmark | Example of used cover | ||
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| The registered letter sent on FDC cover from 1995 | |||
References
- Technical details and short description: Posta Slovenije, colnect.
Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, for reviewing the draft page.