Slovenia 2000 "Fossils - Trilobite"

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Issue Date 21.03.2000
ID Michel: 295; Scott: 397; Stanley Gibbons: 444; Yvert et Tellier: 269; Category: pF
Design Matjaz Ucaka
Stamps in set 1
Value T80 - Trilobite
Emmision commemorative
Places of issue Jesenice
Size (width x height) 28.80 x 40.32 mm
Layout Sheet of 25 stamps
Products FDC x1
Paper Chancellor oba free L.S.PVA GMD 102g, gummed
Perforation 14
Print Technique Offset lithography, 4 colours
Printed by DELO - TISKARNA d. d., Ljubljana
Quantity 150.000
Issuing Authority Posta Slovenij
Trilobites bedici on stamp of Slovenia 2000

On March 21st, 2000, the Post Authority of Slovenia issued the next stamp in their multi-year set "Fossil of Slovenia". The stamp show a Trilobite - Paladin (Kaskia) bedici.

The following text was written by Prof.dr. Anton Ramovs, it was published on the website of Slovenia in 2000. The notes were added by the author of this website.

Trilobites are a group of extinct arthropods. Their body was segmented into the cephalon (head), segmented thorax (body), and pygidium (tail). Their back was covered with a hard three-part chitinous skeleton divided into the head, thoracic and tail shield. The trilobites bore a long central axis, or axial lobe, flanked on each side by the lateral lobe.
Trilobite Paladin Kaskia bedici
The image credit: PMS website

The exoskeleton (external skeleton) was divided lengthwise into three prominent lobes, the medially located axial lobe and two lateral pleural lobes (on each side of the body). Trilobites were in the Palaeozoic Era one of the most important and the most numerous animal species. The oldest specimens appeared in the Early Cambrian Epoch, about 520 million years ago and last ones died out at the end of the Palaeozoic Era about 250 million years ago.

The trilobite species Paladin (Kaskia) bedici depicting on the stamp lived together with two other trilobite species and two subspecies on the territory of today's Spodnje Pocivale in the Late Carboniferous Epoch, a little more than 290 million years ago and represented the most important Carboniferous trilobite fauna in the Karavanke.
Spodnje Pocivale in Javorniski Rovt is a very rich collecting area of Late Carboniferous fossils where several samples of the new trilobite species were found, among them the whole exoskeleton. The species was described by Prof. Gerhard Hahn and Renata Hahn from the Marburg University. At Anton Ramovs's suggestion, the species was named bedici in honour of the Jesenice-native Joze Bedic, who contributed a great deal to the very rich trilobite collection from the Jesenice area.

Notes:
Anton Ramovs (17 December 1924 – 1 May 2011) was a Slovene geologist and paleontologist, who was born in Dolenja Vas near Zelezniki in 1924. Ramovs studied at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1950 and obtained his doctorate in 1956. He worked at the University of Ljubljana, where his main area of research was petrographic and geological mapping. In 1961 Ramovs won the Levstik Award for his books "Zemlja skozi milijone let" and "Geološki izleti po ljubljanski okolici" ("Earth Over Millions of Years" and "Geological Outings Around Ljubljana"). Joze Bedic (27. november 1923 - 15. februar 2002) was collector of fossils and museums friend, who found the trilobit.
Bedic collection of fossils has about 20,000 specimens, representatives of various animal groups. The major part of the collection is owned by Gornjesavski Museum Jesenice that her best part since 1993 continuously provides on display to visitors in Ruard manor house in Jesenice, a small part of it is owned by Lady Anne bedic




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References

  • Technical details and short description: Posta Slovenije, colnect.
  • Karavankona - the fossils of the Southern Karavanks: karavankina.com
  • Anton Ramovs: Wikipedia
  • AJoze Bedic: http://temp9.element.si - the article does not exist anymore.


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