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| Issue Date | 22.03.2019 |
| ID | Michel: Scott: Stanley Gibbons: Yvert: UPU: Category: pF |
| Designer | stamp design: Edi Berk |
| Place of issue | Trbovlje |
| Stamps in set | 1 |
| Value | €0.85 - Anthracotherium magnum |
| Size (width x height) | 42.60 x 29.82 mm |
| Layout | Sheet of 25 stamps |
| Products | FDC x1 |
| Paper | Tullis Russell Chancellor Litho PVA RMS GUM, 102 g/m2 |
| Perforation | 14 x 14 |
| Print Technique | Offset, 4 colours |
| Printed by | Agencija za komercijalnu djelatnost d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia |
| Quantity | 40.000 |
| Issuing Authority | Posta Slovenije |
On March 22, 2019 Slovenian Post Authority issued the fourth stamp of their multi-year set of "Mammals fossils in Slovenia" shows fossil and reconstruction of Anthracotherium Magnum . The first stamp of the set issued in 2016 and shown fossil of cave bear.
The anthracothere
– an Oligocene
mammal from the Zasavje region
Back in the days when coal mines were still operating
in the Zasavje region, it was not uncommon for miners
to dig up fossil remains of various kinds. Particularly
noteworthy finds included the remains of large
mammals such as the anthracothere. The genus name
of these mammals, Anthracotherium, translates literally
as “coal beast”. Reports of discoveries of the remains
of these creatures were already arriving from open
pits and mines in Hrastnik, Trbovlje and Zagorje ob
Savi in the mid-nineteenth century. Contemporary
palaeontologists classified them as the species
Anthracotherium magnum and, in the case of an
exclusively local find, as Anthracotherium illyricum.
The unearthed remains were often badly damaged
and fragmented, with usually only the teeth being
well preserved. Today many of the remains are found
in palaeontological collections in Austria, while
collections in Slovenia contain relatively little.
The anthracotheres’ habitat consisted of the vast
forests and wetland margins that approximately 25
million years ago (the late Oligocene) extended across
the area of present-day central and eastern Slovenia.
They fed on the leaves of trees and various wetland
plants, and research indicates that they probably spent
a lot of time in the water. They grew to a length of two
metres and reached a weight of 250 kg. They belong
to the group of mammals whose ancestors lived in
Asia and which colonised Europe during the Oligocene.
Their bones and teeth have been excavated in other
sites around Europe, from Italy and Switzerland to
Germany. Anthracotheres (genus Anthracotherium)
died out in Europe just a few million years after the
formation of the coal deposits in the Zasavje region.
Matija Križnar MSc,
palaeontologist, senior curator
Slovenian Museum of Natural Historya [R1]
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References:
[R1] Stamp Magazine of Slovenian Post, Bulletin Nr. 125 (page 8 with text on Slovenian, German and Englsh languages)
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Latest update 28.03.2019
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