Slovenia 1995 "Karavankina schellwieni"

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Issue Date 29.03.1995
ID Michel: 108; Scott: 228; Stanley Gibbons: 260; Yvert et Tellier: 102; Category: pF
Design Illustration: Mirko Majer, Photo: Anton Cebron
Stamps in set 1
Value T70 - Karavankina schellwieni
Emmision commemorative
Places of issue Ljubljana
Size (width x height) 28.80 mm x 40.32 mm
Layout Sheet of 25 stamps
Products FDC x1
Paper Chancellor oba free L.S.PVA GMD 100g, gummed
Perforation 14 x 14
Print Technique Offset lithography
Printed by DELO - TISKARNA d. d., Ljubljana
Quantity 150.000
Issuing Authority Posta Slovenije
Karavankina schellwieni on stamp of Slovenia 1995

On March 29th, 1995, the Post Authority of Slovenia issued the second stamp in their multi-year set "Fossil of Slovenia". The first stamp was issued in 1993.

The following text was written by Prof.dr. Anton Ramovs, it was published on the website of Slovenia in 1995.

The world famous fossil locality in the Dolzan Gorge above Trzic offers in inexhaustible wealth of various Lower Permian fossils. More than 80 species of brachiopods alone are known, of which over 20 were found here before anywhere else in the world, and had already been described and pictured by 1900. Karavankina schellwieni, from flesh-coloured limestone, was described in 1966. This new genus and species is characterised on the exterior surface of the valves by parallel belts that are strewn with tiny warts, the remains of small prickles. The animal was anchored with these in the limy mud of the seabed. Adult valves are about one and a half centimetres long and around two centimetres wide. Karavankina schellwieni Ramovs, 1966, lived about 275 million years ago in the warm Palaeotethys Sea.
The Lower Permian Karavankina schellwieni is a new genus and new species, differing essentially in its internal structure from the Lower Carboniferous species Productus elegans. The latter from Dolzan Gorge was described in 1900 by the German palaeontologist, E. Schellien.



Products and associated philatelic items

FDC First-Day-of-Issue Postmark
Fossil of Karavankina schellwieni on First day Cover of Slovenia 1995 Fossil of Karavankina schellwieni on postmark of Slovenia 1995



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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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