Slovenia
1995
"Karavankina schellwieni"
| 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 |
On March 29
th, 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.
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References
Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to
Dr.
Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University,
for reviewing the draft page.
