Slovenia 1993 "Fossils of Dolzan Gorge: Schwagerina Carniolica"

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Issue Date	07.05.1993
ID	Michel: 50; Scott: 172; Stanley Gibbons: 206; Yvert et Tellier: 45; Category: pF
Design	Illustration: Mirko Majer, Stamp Design: Judita Skalar
Stamps in set	1
Value	T44.00 - Schwagerina Carniolica
Emission/Type	commemorative
Places of issue	Trzic
Size (width x height)	28.80 x 40.32 mm
Layout	Sheet of 25 stamps
Products	FDC x1
Paper	muflep 90g, gummed
Perforation	13 x 14
Print Technique	Offset lithography
Printed by	DELO - TISKARNA d. d., Ljubljana
Quantity	150.000
Issuing Authority	Posta Slovenije

On May 7^th, 1993, the Post Authority of Slovenia started the series of stamps, “Fossils of Slovenia”. The first stamp of the set shows Schwagerina Carniolica.

The following text was written by Prof.dr. Anton Ramovs and published on the website of Slovenia in 1993
The world known palaeontological locality in the Dolzan Gorge above Trzic offers to the visitor an inexhaustible wealth of various Lower Permian fossils. Solely the brachiopods amount to about 80 distinct species, and among these more than 20 species are new, first discovered and described from this locality. Extraordinary is also the richness of large foraminifers, several of which were first found here. One of these fossils is the sphaeric fusulinid Schwagerina Carniolica (Kahler & Kahler) - the Carniolian Schwagerina which was discovered in black limestone at the second turn of the road in the Dolzan Gorge, and described as new species in 1937. Its test is about 9.5 mm long and 8 mm wide. The animal lived about 280 million years ago, at the time when in the warm ancient sea the Lower Permian Pseudoschwagerina limestone was deposited.

Products and associated philatelic items

FDCs (clean ad circulated)n
First-Day-of-Issue Postmark	Example of used cover
	The registered letter sent on FDC cover from 1995

References

• Technical details and short description: Posta Slovenije, colnect.

Acknowledgements:

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

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