2020

Some Books about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals issued in 2020 and 2019.

"The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History" Amazon: USA, UK, DE.	"Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: The Sauropods" Amazon: USA, UK, DE.	"The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: The Theropods" Amazon: USA, UK, DE.	"Life through the ages" Amazon: USA, UK, DE.

More Paleophilately related books can be found on the Books page of this site.

Official stamps directly related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, paleontologists

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Undesired stamps are shown with a grey background.

20.12.2020 Tajikistan	25.11.2020 Poland	12.11.2020 North Korea (DPRK)
03.11.2020 Serbia	17.08.2020 Australia mint & self-adhesive
18.06.2020 Romania	16.06.2020 Armenia	03.06.2020 Russia
23.03.2020 Spain [3]	13.03.2020 Slovenia [4]	04.03.2020 Hungary [2]
25.01.2020 Algeria [1]

Paleontology related stamps of countries who issue too many stamps per year, stamps with prehistoric animals or their fossils without any relation to the issuing country or stamps with inaccurate reconstruction of prehistoric animals. These stamps are not recommended for serious collectors and are Undesired at serious philatelic exhibits.
Central African Republic (C.A.R)	Chad	Djibouti
Guinea	Guinea Bissau	Liberia
Maldives	Mozambique	Niger
São Tomé and Príncipe	Sierra Leone	Togo

Notes:

[1] Fossilized bones and tusks of a prehistoric elephant shown on onen of the stamps.
Another stamp reproduce the rock art of the Sfissifa Station.
For details please go here.

[2] The second issue in the “The World of the Bakony Dinosaurs”. Unlike the 2018 issue which had a collector item of a red moonchrome sheet, this year’s issue included a imperforate Mini-sheet issued just for collectors.

[3] Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos and skull of Homo heidelbergensis or an early Neanderthal shown on one of the stamps.
For details please go here.

[4] The skull and the skeleton on the stamp is a reproduction of Hyracodon nebraskensis, not Prohyracodon telleri as written on the stamp. For details please go here.

Some personalized stamps related to Paleontology: dinosaurs

.08.2020 Germany [SP2]		06.02.2020 Liechtenstein [SP1]

Notes:

[SP1] Stegosaurus with integrated gem stone Epidosite cut in the shape of a dinosaur egg.
For details please go here.


[SP2] Self-adhesive personalized stamps "Treasures of German Paleontologic Museums (I) & (II)" issued by private Post Company "Brief und mehr" from Muenster in Germany.
For details please go here.

Stamps of associated topics: fossil sites, Natural History Museums, contributors to Paleontology

22.10.2020 Croatia [A5]	29.05.2020 Spain [A3]	28.02.2020 Greenland [A4]
14.02.2020 Latvia [A1]
Paleontology related stamps of countries who issue too many stamps per year, stamps with prehistoric animals or their fossils without any relation to the issuing country or stamps with inaccurate reconstruction of prehistoric animals. These stamps are not recommended for serious collectors and are Undesired at serious philatelic exhibits.
30.11.2020 Guinea Bissau	30.11.2020 Liberia	24.07.2020 C.A.R.
15.07.2020 Sierra Leone	12.06.2020 Djibouti	28.02.2020 Togo [A2]

Notes:

[A1] Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times, sometimes it encases prehistoric insects and other animals, as shown on stamps of Poland 1993 and Lithuania 2009 for example.

[A2] Fossil of Ammonite on stamp from "85 anniversary of Moscow Metro" (bottom right of Mini-Sheet of 4).
There are absolutely no reason for Togo to commemorate an anniversary of a Metro in Moscow, except to raise money from collectors.

[A3] The famous Asturian jet (also called black Amber) is an organic gemstone, which becomes a humic carbon, perihydrogenated during the Kimmeridgian age (Late Jurassic) around 155 million years ago. For details please go here.


 [A4] The stamp shows the Arctic deserts at Kangerlussuaq.

Fish fossil from Kangerlussuaq Image credit: polartrec

The glaciers are melting because of the climate change, climate change, exposes bedrock for study. And these are famous fossil finding place.
Example of fossil found on this place is on the right.

 [A5] The Mini-Sheet "Minerals & Rocks 2020" contains two stamps: The Hraschina Meteorite and Lithothamnium limestone (on the right side of the Mini-Sheet).
Lithothamnium limestone, called “litavac” for short in Croatian, is a sedimentary rock. This massive, porous type of limestone is mostly composed of red algae of the Lithothamnium order that inhabited the Paratethys Sea 15 million years ago, during the Middle Miocene.
For details please go here.

Commemorative Postmarks directly related to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, human ancestors, paleontologists

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20.12.2020 "Tajikistan" [FDC]	25.11.2020 "Poland" [FDC]
17.08.2020 Australia [FDC]	19.07.2020 China [Sp]	16.06.2020 Armenia [FDC]
03.06.2020 Russia [FDC] (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Orenburg)
03.06.2020 Russia [FDC] ( Saratov, Yaroslavl, Sevastopol [PM3])
xx.xx.2020 [DU] Czech Republic [Sp]	xx.xx.2020 [DU] Czech Republic [Sp]	xx.xx.2020 [DU] Czech Republic [Sp]
xx.xx.2020 [DU] Czech Republic [Sp]	08.05.2020 Japan [PM] [PM2]	23.03.2020 Spain [FDC] [3]
13.03.2020 Slovenia [FDC]	04.03.2020 Hungary [FDC]	25.01.2020 Algeria [FDC] [PM1]

Notes:
[PM1] Replication of the elephant image from the cave painting, as depicted on one stamp of the set of Algeria 2020 "Archeologic sites".

[PM2] New landscape postmark of Japan, introduced on May 8^th 2020 in Mifune town (population of 17,000) - Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto Prefecture. The postmark shows a waterfall and skull of a "Mifune" dinosaur.
For details please go here.

[PM3] Sevastopol is the largest city on the Crimean Peninsula and a major Black Sea port. Since annexing Crimea in 2014, the Russian Federation has administered Sevastopol as a federal city. Nevertheless, Ukraine and most of the UN member countries continue to regard Sevastopol as a city with special status within Ukraine.

Commemorative postmarks of associated topics: flint tools, Natural History Museums

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03.11.2020 Serbia [FDC] [PMO1]	18.06.2020 Romania [FDC]	05.06.2020 [DU] Monaco [PM]
xx.xx.2020 [DU] Czech Republic [Sp]

Notes:

[PMO1] The postmark from the FDC of "125^th anniversary of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade" stamps set of Serbia, reproduces the logo of the Museum.
The logo is combination of four elements: butterfly, flower, Ammonite and crystal.
For details please go here.

Post stationaries and special covers related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and their fossils, fossils of prehistoric mammals

2020 China [PS1]	29.07.2020 India [C1]

Notes:

[PS1] Similar to postal stationery from 2002 - the same design of imprinted stamp, but different face value.
The stamp from 2002 has a value of 0.80, while the stamp 2020 has a value of 1.20. According to the text on the reverse side of the cover, the new face value was introduced in 2009.
The cachet of postal stationery from 2020 shows reconstruction of the Chinese Duck-billed Dinosaur (Hadrosaur)- Shantungosaurus, instead of his fossilized skeleton on postal stationery from 2002.
For details please go here.

[C1] Tooth of Stegodon in a piece of rock shown on a cachet of commemorative cover of India "Biodiversity in Shivalik Hills of Saharanpur".
For details please go here.

Notes

• If you are aware of any other philatelic items related to Paleontology or Paleoanthropology issued in 2020 that are not listed on this page, please inform the author of the website.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, for reviewing the draft page and his very valuable comments.