Topical Lists and Species Names

Currently, this catalogue displays images and provides information on thousands of philatelic items related to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology from nearly 200 countries and territories sorted by country names and the date of issue.

The stamps checklist and the gallery pages of this website can be used to compile a personal topical list.
By slowly scrolling through the "Postage Stamps" gallery or the "Illustrated Checklist of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology related stamps" pages, visitors can easily identify and compile all stamps related to a specific subject, such as carnivorous dinosaurs, mammoths or fossils of birds, etc. In the same way, by scrolling through these galleries, visitors can locate and group together philatelic items related to particular themes, species, or geological periods.

The same exploratory approach can be applied to the First Day Cover (FDC), postmarks and postal stationeries galleries.

In this way, the galleries and the checklist encourage active engagement with the material, allowing visitors to construct their own thematic collections according to their personal interests or research needs.

Alternatively, the country-based or chronological catalogues can be used in a similar manner to support thematic exploration, but this is a much more time-consuming process, as visitors must browse through hundreds of pages.

The website contains a number of topical lists: Paleontologists and Paleoanthropologists; contributors to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology; Paleontological and Paleoanthropological Museums; Paleontological and Paleoanthropological Fossil Sites.
Several topical articles, such as The History of Megaloceros giganteus Discovery contain list of philatelic items related to their topics.

If you are searching for a specific extinct species on philatelic items, this information can be found on stampedout website of fellow collector, Ton van Eijden from the Netherlands.