Issue Date |
30.06.2016 |
ID |
Michel: 5077-5080;
Scott: ;
Stanley Gibbons: 5068-5071;
Yvert et Tellier: 4782-4785;
Category: pR |
Design |
Ramiro Undabeytia |
Stamps in set |
4 |
Value |
€2 Europelta
€2 Pelecaniminus
€2 Proa
€2 Turiasaurus
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Emission/Type |
commemorative |
Issue place |
Madrid |
Size (width x height) |
57.6 mm x 40.9 mm |
Layout |
Sheets of 16 and sheet of 12
stamps (Anquilosaurus)
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Products |
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Paper |
gummed |
Perforation |
13x13 |
Print Technique |
Offset,
scales texture, R.A.,
phosphorescence, 3D |
Printed by |
RCM-FNMT |
Quantity |
250.000 each stamp |
Issuing Authority |
Correos Y Telegrafos SA |
On June 30
th, 2016, the Post Authority of Spain issued the second stamps of Dinosaurs
(
first set issued in 2015).
The set contain four stamps, each one printed with different technique:
scales texture, Augmented Reality, phosphorescence, 3D and special
glasses, which allows to some of the effects.
Distinguished from
stamps of 2015 when all
shown dinosaurs were well known to wide public:
Ankylosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus,
this year only "local" dinosaurs were depicted.
"Four new stamps shows the images of these some creatures that
disappeared from Earth more than 65 million years ago.
Dinosaurs who star in the series this year are:
Europelta,
which is printed with the technique called lenticular printing,
the
Pelecaniminus whose image has been printed with holographic ink,
the dinosaur known as
Proa presented in a Premium Pliego 3D and finally
Turiasaurus, printed with thermo chromic ink that changes color when
subjected to temperature changes.
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The
Europelta lived about 110 million years ago and is a type of dinosaur
Ankylosaurus, ie battleship.
It was small, no more than a meter tall and fed on the plants growing in the muddy Teruel area
(so far the only place where fossils of this dinosaur are found) was more than 100 million years ago.
The
Proa is an unusual basal iguanodóntido whose unique feature is the
presence of a pre-dental single peak in their group.
Seems that it was herbivorous and measured seven to eight meters in length.
He lived in the mid-Cretaceous period some 112 million years ago and its remains
were found at the lignite mine Santa Maria in Ariño (Teruel) in 2010.
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The European
Pelecaniminus was a theropod dinosaur.
The only place where its fossils are found is Cuenca.
Its average length ranges of two meters and its weight could reach 25 kilos.
This ornitomimosauriano had a long beak like his head and had a bag underneath,
like the pelicans, perhaps, to keep capturing prey.
He had more teeth than other members of their species, particularly about 220.
At the top of his head protruded a small ridge and is believed to be omnivorous.
Turiasaurus was a sauropod with large and sturdy limbs that lived in
the late Jurassic period about 145 million years ago.
It seems that the Turiasaurus riodevensis could weigh 40 tons and measuring about 30
meters long, exceeding the size of any dinosaur found in Europe and
ranking among the largest supersaurópodos the world."
Carmen Alvarez Casanova
Products and associated philatelic items
FDC |
Mini-Sheet |
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References
Correos Spain