2024
Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils,
fossil-found places, paleontologists and contributors to Paleontology
and Paleoanthropology as well as Natural History Museums on
stamps, postmarks and postal stationeries issued in 2024
If you know about any other Philatelic item related to Paleontology or
Paleoanthropology, issued this year which is not mentioned below,
please inform me.
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Announcements:
This month:
nothing known at this moment
Next month:
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07.11.2024 France - "The Chauvet cave - Ardèche".
The decorated cave of Pont d'Arc, Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave or simply Chauvet a cave, discovered in 1994,
is a Paleolithic decorated cave located in the territory of the commune of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc
(southern Ardèche, France ).
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07.11.2024 Switzerland -
"Giants of the Ice Age" - the set of two stamps. One stamp depict woolly Mammoth, another depict woolly Rhino.
The presale is ongoing in the online store of Swiss Post.
Later this year:
Next year:
- ?.2025 Germany -
"National Archaeological Finds: UNESCO World Heritage: Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Alb”.
One stamp will be released in the multi-year set "UNESCO World Heritage".
Perhaps there will be a cave painting of prehistoric animals or art objects depicting prehistoric
man or prehistoric animals depicted on the stamp.
- ??.09.2025 Poland - "Dinosaurs" - set of 3 stamps
(postponed).
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Some Books about Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, issued or coming soon this year
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"The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs Third Edition"
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE.
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"An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology"
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE.
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"Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide"
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE.
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"Reconstructing Olduvai: The Behavior of Early Humans at David's Site"
Amazon:
USA,
UK,
DE.
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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
Notes:
[1] On March 12
th 2024, the Royal Mail issued
the stamps set "The Age of the Dinosaurs" and eight
First-Day-of-Issue Postmarks for the stamps set
These stamps were carefully created in partnership with the Natural History Museum in London,
using scientists from no less than six different specializations of palaeontology.
The set includes four pairs of stamps with reconstructions of prehistoric animals
and the Mini-Sheet with four self-adhesive stamps show Mary Anning and some of
the most important fossils she unearthed along the Dorset coastline.
Three additional fossils are shown on the margin on the Mini-Sheet.
Since these stamps are very different, both thematically and artistically,
their descriptions on this website were split into two articles:
[2] The Mini-Sheet show fossils and reconstructions of
Cambrian animals and plants from "Chengjiang Fossil Site" which declared as
the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012.
[3]
"Prehistoric animals" on stamps of Kyrgyzstan 2024, were created with
support of the author of this website:
Kyrgyz Express Post expresses its appreciation for valuable consultative
support in the preparation of this stamp issue to
Michael Kogan, the author of the website www.paleophilatelie.eu,
and Aizek Asanbekovich Bakirov, the acting director of the M. M. Adyshev Institute
of Geology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Newsletter no. 92
To order the "Prehistoric animals of Kyrgyzstan" stamps, in the on-line store of Kyrgyz Express Post,
please click
here.
Some personalized stamps related to Paleontology: prehistoric animals and their fossils
Notes:
[SP1] On March 26
th, 2024, (initially announced for March 19),
the last three stamp sheets of the personalized Prehistoric Animals series were issued.
This set depicts the large baleen whale,
Tranatocetus maregermanicum,
the Giant Beaver
Trogontherium cuvieri, and the Steppe Bison
Bison priscus.
Each stamp sheet contains 5 stamps depicting both the animals and their fossils.
The previous 3 sets of 3 sheets each,
were issued in the previous year.
[SP2] On July 3
rd, 2024, the Post Authority of Indonesia issued the set of five
numbered Souvenir and Mini Sheets dedicated to “The Asian International Stamp Exhibition & Competition”, which took
place in Jakarta between July 3
rd and July 7
th, 2024.
These sheets
were sold as a set in
souvenir folder.
One of the Mini-Sheets showing two dinosaurs: a sauropod and
Triceratops
Commemorative Postmarks directly related to Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils,
human ancestors, paleontologists
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