2020

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, fossil-found places, paleontologists and contributors to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology science as well as Natural History Museums on stamps, postmarks and postal stationeries issued in 2020

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 on this moment Next month: 02.11.2020 - Australia - Limited edition (200 pieces each) of special commemorative Mini-Sheets and Medallion Cover with Opalised fossils stamps issued on August 17th this year. 03.11.2020 - Serbia - "125th anniversary of Natural History Museum in Belgrade". Set of 4 stamps, printed in a sheet of 5 rows with 4 stamps + 1 tab (different tab at every row) in the middle. One of the tabs shows an Ammonite. Later this year:    nothing known on this moment

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

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17.08.2020 Australia mint & self-adhesive
18.06.2020 Romania	16.06.2020 Armenia	03.06.2020 Russia [5]
15.04.2020 Mozambique	30.03.2020 Chad	25.03., 30.06.2020 Niger
23.03.2020 Spain [3]	13.03.2020 Slovenia [4]	04.03.2020 Hungary [2]
28.02, 29.05.2020 Togo	27.02.2020 Djibouti	12.02, 12.04.2020 Maldives
07.02, 27.04.2020 Guinea Bissau	04.02.2020  São Tomé and Príncipe	30.01, 27.03.2020 Sierra Leone
27.01.2020 C.A.R.	25.01.2020 Algeria [1]	03.01.2020 Liberia

Notes:
[1] Archeologists have discovered lithic tools and animal bones on the site of Ain Al Hanesh dating from 2.4 million years ago. The French paleontologist Camile Arambourg was able to prove the existence of a plio-pleistocene deposit, in addition to his classification of these fossilized bones (elephants, equids, cows, hippopotamus, rhinos, etc.), as well as cut pebbles constituting Oldowan sub-spheroidal and spheroidal polyhedrons that makes this discovery the first of its kind regarding very old archeological remains found next to fossilized bones of savanna animals.

[2] Continue the set of "THE WORLD OF THE BAKONY DINOSAURS" started in 2018, but this time imperforated Mini-Sheet issued as collector item, instead of monochrome (red) one, issued in 2018

 [3] This year, three new Spanish museums are the central figures of the series Correos dedicates to the temples of art, history and culture in Spain.
The first of the Premium Sheets is dedicated to the Museum of Human Evolution. Located in the centre of Burgos, it was designed by the architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg on a plot where the convent of San Pablo of the Dominican order once stood many centuries back. The museum was included in the declaration of the sites of Atapuerca as a World Heritage Site in 2015. The main aim of the Museum of Human Evolution is to preserve, map and disclose archaeological remains from the sites of the Sierra de Atapuerca. The façade of the museum is seen in the stamp’s motif, together with an image of the human skull known as Miguelón.

[4] The skull and the skeleton on the stamp are a reproductions of Hyracodon nebraskensis, not Prohyracodon telleri as written on the stamp. More details are here.

[5] The fisrt stamps set of Russia dedicated to prehistoric animals ever.
The set of 4 stamps "Paleontologic Heritage of Russia" issued in a Mini-Sheet format with two sets on it and the set title above. Fossils of a large variety of theroid reptiles of different eras of the Earth geological history have been found on the territory of modern-day Russia and characterized. The postal stamps provide images of fossil remains and reconstructed images of Inostrancevia, Pliosaurus rossicus, the woolly mammoth and the Giant Deer. There are also 6 postmarks associated with these stamps - all have the same design of Ammonite, but introduced in 6 different cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Yaroslavl, Sevastopol ^[PM3] and Orenburg.

Some personalized stamps related to Paleontology: dinosaurs

.06.2020 Iran [SP2]
2020 Germany [SP3]		06.02.2020 Liechtenstein [SP1]

Notes:

[SP1] Stegosaurus with integrated gem stone Epidosite  in form of dinosaur egg.
The stone formed at the same time when dinosaurs lived in our planet.
As the stone is just stick on the stamp is it impossible to make a good scan of it as it makes the stamp not flat. After several trials I just made a photo with my smart phone.
The stamp delivered  in plastic box to safe the stone.

[SP2] The National Museum of Teheran (Iran) issued a set with a number of stamps showing artifacts of their huge collection in 2019. Three stamps are related to the stone age. The stamps themselves are ornamental tablets, as on the image below. Neanderthal tooth from Wezmeh cave, that discovered by a team of Fereidoun Biglari, shown on one of the stamps. This is the first direct evidence of the Neanderthal presence in the Iranian Zagros. The Wezmeh Cave is an archaeological site near Islamabad Gharb, western Iran, around 470 km southwest of the capital Tehran. Since its discovery in 1999 several excavations made there. More information and images coming soon.

[SP3] Self-adhesive personalized stamps "Treasures of German Paleontologic Museums (I) & (II)" issued by private Post Companyy "Brief und mehr" from Muenster in Germany.
First set of 3 stamps is dedícated to Paleontologic Museum of Munich. Fossilized skeletons of three animals shown on these stamps: Gomphotherium (prehistoric elephant) Plateosaurus dinosaur and the reptile Prestosuchus chiniquensis from Triassic Period.

Another set, of two stamp, shows a reconstruction of the dinosaurs Lilienternus and Plateosaurus from an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Stuttgart.

Other stamps to consider: fossil found place, Natural History Museums, contributors to Paleontology

22.10.2020 Croatia [A5]	29.05.2020 Spain [A3]
28.02.2020 Greenland [A4]	28.02.2020 Togo [A2]	14.02.2020 Latvia [A1]

Notes:

 [A1] Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times., sometimes it also include some prehistoric insects inside.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 righ of Mini-Sheet of 4).
There are absolutely no reason for Togo to commemorate an anniversary of a Metro in Moscow, except to raise a money from collector.

 [A3] The famous Asturian jet (also called black amber) is an organic gemstone, highly valued for its excellent cutting qualities, and attaining a typical shine and intense black colour after polishing.
Specialist studies determine that the woody material , which becomes a humic carbon, perihydrogenated during the Kimmeridgian age (Late Jurassic) around 155 million years ago, underwent particular circumstances while it formed, such as impregnation with hydrocarbons, which gives it some of its unique features and exceptional stability for use in jewellery making.

 [A4] The stamp shows the Arctic deserts at Kangerlussuaq. The glaciers are melting because of the climate change, cause huge bedrocks came to light. And these are famous fossil finding place.
The image on the right is from https://www.polartrec.com/ site.

 [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, in Middle Miocene. The limestone’s name is derived from the algae, in addition to which it contains the remains of bivalves, echinoderms, bryozoans and benthic foraminifera. Apart from the remains of sea organisms, Lithothamnium limestone contains fragments of quartz and calcite, mica flakes and fragments of rocks from the coastal area. Lithothamnium limestone was formed in the shallows of the Pannonian Sea, which surrounded Medvednica and other Pannonian Croatia mountains, which were islands at the time.
Along with Triassic dolomites, Lithothamnium limestone forms a unique karst zone on the west side of Mount Medvednica. Even though karst phenomena on Mount Medvednica are mostly hidden under younger Holocene deposits, many karst forms such as caves, pits, sinkholes and karst valleys are still present in this zone.

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

Legend is here

17.08.2020 "Australia" [FDC]	19.07.2020 China [Sp]	16.06.2020 Armenia [FDC]
03.06.2020 Russia [FDC] [5] (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Orenburg)
03.06.2020 Russia [FDC] [5] ( Saratov, Yaroslavl, Sevastopol [PM3])
	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 depicting 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.
A tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur discovered at the town in 1979. It became famous as Japan's first carnivorous dinosaur fossil (common name: Mifneryu), perhaps relative of Allosaurus. Later on many other fossils and footprints of dinosaurs and pterosaurs found at the place.
On April 1998 "Mifune Dinosaur Museum" established in the town.

[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.

Some other commemorative postmarks to consider: flint tools, Natural History Museums

Legend is here

18.06.2020 Romania [FDC]	05.06.2020 [DU] Monaco [PM]

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