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Paleontology related stamps, post marks, post stationary and special covers depicted dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, fossil found sites of the year 2016 sorted in chronological order.

Note:  According to FIP regulations, issues of countries who is not recognized by the UPU is not allowed to be used at exhibitions organized or sponsored by FIP.  The FIP recommends to collectors avoid these stamps at their collections. 

[A1]  The dagger (face value: CHF 1.00) was made of flint, prehistoric man’s steel, in the Neolithic period (4th century B.C.). Experts assume that it was imported from Monti Lessini at Lake Garda by people belonging to the Horgen culture who lived on the Schellenberg-Borscht site. The lancet-shaped blade which has a broken-off tip is eleven centimetres long and the organic handle is missing. The dagger is important evidence of the trade relations that were conducted over long distances by the Neolithic inhabitants of the Alpine Rhine Valley.

[A2]  £1.01 – Warrah Skull.
The warrah was the Falklands only native land mammal – its existence in isolation on the Islands fascinated Charles Darwin (Darwin and a warrah depicted  on stamp Falklands island in 1982 and 2009  ) and to this day remains something of an enigma.  Darwin noted the warrah’s lack of fear of humans and predicted that it would become extinct once settlement was established. He was right, and the last known warrah was shot at Shallow Bay on West Falkland in 1876.  Only a handful of warrah specimens exist worldwide and until recently there were no remains held in the Falklands. However, in 2010, Dale Evans (then 13 years old) discovered bones on his parents’ farm and DNA testing later confirmed these as warrah. Carbon-dating has shown that the bones are at least 1,000 years old, making them the oldest known remains of the species.

[A3]  The Moselle is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg, and Germany. It is a left tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A small part of Belgium is also drained by the Moselle through the Sauer and the Our.  The Moselle "twists and turns its way between Trier and Koblenz along one of Germany's most beautiful river valleys." It flows through a region that has been influenced by mankind since it was first cultivated by the Romans. Today, its hillsides are covered by terraced vineyards where "some of the best Rieslings grow", and numerous ruined castles dominate the hilltops above wine villages and towns that line the riverbanks. Traben-Trarbach with its art nouveau architecture and Bernkastel-Kues with its traditional market square are two of the many popular tourist attractions on the Moselle river. The present source region of the Moselle, were formed about 50 million years ago. In the Miocene and Pliocene epochs the ancient Moselle (Urmosel) was already a tributary of the ancient Rhine (Ur-Rhein). When, in the Quaternary period, the Rhenish Massif slowly rose, the meanders of the Moselle were formed between the Trier Valley and the Neuwied Basin. Quite some small marine fossils are found in the region

[A4]  NT$12 (number 4) of  "Scenery Souvenir Sheet – Taitung County" souvenir sheet  show National Museum of Prehistory. It is Taiwan’s first museum dedicated to prehistoric and indigenous cultures, the first museum to contain a prehistoric site and eco-park in the premises, and the first national museum built on the east coast of Taiwan. There are at least two permanent exhibitions that feet to our topic: The Ice Age  and  Human Evolution    

[A5]  This year EUROPA stamps issued with the common topic  "Ecology in Europe - Think Green".  All countries participated in the project issued a stamp with the same design. Some countries issued one more stamp with their original design. Human evolution shown on two such stamp.

Estonia: "On the stamp the artist shows that work made man from the ape, but what man has done with his wisdom…? In addition to human development and factories with smoking chimneys the stamp features the world’s first affordable and thus mass produced car, Ford Model T"
Serbia has added a stamp with human evolution before a recycle bin to sign the fact  the human evolution resulted in a polluted environment.

[A6] On May 27 2016, Stamperija issued 18 Mini Sheets for Sierra Leone with the common subject "National Parks". Two of them shows East African Rift Valley, the Olduvai Gorge and the Turkana Lake on the map. All these places are well known ass prehistoric human fossils found places.

 [A7] Conrad Gessner was the first naturalist to write a book about fossils, named "On the fossils objects".  Gesner, Conrad (1565) "De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmod"