Slovenia 2000 "Fossils - Trilobite"
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| Issue Date | 21.03.2000 |
| ID | Michel: 295; Scott: 397; Stanley Gibbons: 444; Yvert et Tellier: 269; Category: pF |
| Design | Matjaz Ucaka |
| Stamps in set | 1 |
| Value | T80 - Trilobite |
| Emission/Type | commemorative |
| Places of issue | Jesenice |
| Size (width x height) | 28.80 x 40.32 mm |
| Layout | Sheet of 25 stamps |
| Products | FDC x1 |
| Paper | Chancellor oba free L.S.PVA GMD 102g, gummed |
| Perforation | 14 |
| Print Technique | Offset lithography, 4 colours |
| Printed by | DELO - TISKARNA d. d., Ljubljana |
| Quantity | 150.000 |
| Issuing Authority | Posta Slovenij |
On March 21st, 2000, the Post Authority of Slovenia issued the next stamp in their multi-year set "Fossil of Slovenia". The stamp shows a Trilobite - Paladin (Kaskia) bedici.
The following text was written by Prof.dr. Anton Ramovs, it was published on the website of Slovenia in 2000. The notes were added by the author of this website.
Trilobites are a group of extinct arthropods. Their body was segmented into the cephalon (head), segmented thorax (body), and pygidium (tail). Their back was covered with a hard three-part chitinous skeleton divided into the head, thoracic and tail shield. The trilobites bore a long central axis, or axial lobe, flanked on each side by the lateral lobes.
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| The image credit: PMS website |
The exoskeleton (external skeleton) was divided lengthwise into three prominent lobes, the medially located axial lobe and two lateral pleural lobes (on each side of the body). Trilobites were in the Palaeozoic Era one of the most important and the most numerous animal species. The oldest specimens appeared in the Early Cambrian Epoch, about 520 million years ago and last ones died out at the end of the Palaeozoic Era about 250 million years ago.
The trilobite species Paladin (Kaskia) bedici depicted on the stamp lived together with two other trilobite species and two subspecies on the territory of today's Spodnje Pocivale in the Late Carboniferous Epoch, a little more than 290 million years ago and represented the most important Carboniferous trilobite fauna in the Karavanke.
Spodnje Pocivale in Javorniski Rovt is a very rich collecting area of Late Carboniferous fossils where several samples of the new trilobite species were found, among them the whole exoskeleton. The species was described by Prof. Gerhard Hahn and Renata Hahn from the Marburg University. At Anton Ramovs's suggestion, the species was named bedici in honour of the Jesenice-native Joze Bedic, who contributed a great deal to the very rich trilobite collection from the Jesenice area.
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Products and associated philatelic items
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References
- Technical details and short description: Posta Slovenije, colnect.
- Karavankona - the fossils of the Southern Karavanks: karavankina.com
- Anton Ramovs: Wikipedia
- AJoze Bedic: "Elemetnts.si" - the article is no longer available..
Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, for reviewing the draft page.| << previous | back to index | next >> |