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and Paleoanthropology science as well as Natural History Museums on
stamps, postmarks and postal stationeries issued in 2021
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This month: nothing known on this moment Next month: nothing known on this moment Later this year: Next year (tentative): Kyrgyzstan - "Dinosaurs" Armenia - "Flora and fauna of the ancient world (VI)" - Insects November: Poland - set of three stamps "Dinosaurs". |
In September 2021 "Paleophilatelie" website was awarded by a GOLD medal
on competition at philatelic websites at FILANANIAS 2021
virtual philatelic show in Brazil that took place between 06 July 2021 to 31 August 2021.
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Some Books about Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, issued this or previous year
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Official stamps directly related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, paleontologists
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Paleontology related stamps of countries who issue too many stamps per year,
stamps with prehistoric animals or their fossils without any relation to the issuing country
or stamps with inaccurate reconstruction of prehistoric animals.
These stamps are not recommended for serious collectors and are Undesired at serious philatelic exhibits, |
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| Mozambique | Niger | xx.07.2021 Penrhyn Island of Cook Islands [1] |
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| Fossil skull of Triceratops on Paleontology stamp of Penrhyn Island of Cook Islands 2021 |
At one time, this atoll had the largest population in the Cook Islands. The Polynesians discovered and settled the island at least 800 years ago.
Sadly, the atoll was almost completely depopulated by Peruvian slavers in 1864.
Annexed by Great Britain in 1888, the atoll came under New Zealand administration in 1901. Penrhyn has several schools, a hospital, and an airstrip, which were built during World War II.
In 2016 the population of the atoll was about 220. [R1]
Philatelic Collector Inc. prints several issues per year on the behalf of the atoll. The philatelic value of these stamps is doubtful, even though they are listed in the major stamp catalogs.
A sketch of a skull of Triceratops is depicted on a stamp from the mini-sheet “Best of the Smithsonian”.
The Smithsonian is one of the major Natural History of USA, first appeared on the stamp in 1946. Triceratops has nothing to do with the Penrhyn atoll or the Cook islands, as its fossils were discovered in North America only. [R2]
Some personalized stamps related to Paleontology: fossils
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[SP1] This set of self-adhesive, personalized stamps were issued by the Slovenian Geological Society.
Two of the issues show photographs of bivalve fossils.
In the upper row, far right is a stamp showing Pironaea. Pironaea was a rudist bivalve – rudists were major reef-builders during much of the Mesozoic.
In the center row, far right is an example of a Megalodontid bivalve.
Megalodontids are Triassic in age and lived in reefs – in cross-section they have a distinctive heart-shaped morphology.
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Fossils on "70 years of Slovenian Geological Society" personalized stamps of Slovenia 2021. The stamp showing Pironaea on the left. The stamp showing Megalodontid bivalve on the right. |
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In the Valley of the Lake in Lužnica, below the Batogniški sedlo, there are slightly,
to the north, sloping deposits of light gray Upper Triassic Dachstein limestone.
The rocks are full of diverse cross-sections of fossil remains of megalodontid shells.
Several centimeters large, typically heart-shaped and also differently shaped cross-sections are usually white or gray, and the fossil shells under the Batogniški sedlo are special because they are colored red. -
Three decades ago, workers at the Rodež quarry near Anhovo found a fossil of the lower shell
of the Upper Cretaceous rudist species Pironaea buseri, which was transferred from the edge of
the carbonate platform to the Paleocene flysch basin in the Paleocene. Dr. Desanka Pejović
recognized a new rudist species and named it after prof. Stanko Buser.
Rudists were bivalve mollusks very similar to the clams, they had two shells or valves joined at a hinge. Some of these bivalve mollusks had horn-shaped shells which lay flat on the bottom of the ocean shore, prevented currents from flipping the mollusks or washing them away.
Rudists evolved in the Jurassic Era and burgeoned throughout the Mesozoic, but their greatest success came during the Cretaceous when they pushed out corals and sponges to become the major reef-building organisms in the Tethys Ocean and various other warm tropical shelves around the world. [R3]
Some stamps to consider: fossil found place, Natural History Museums, contributors to Paleontology
| 14.01.2021 UK | 02.07.2021 Portugal | |
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[A1] Some of these stamps shows fossil found locations.
[A2] Fossil bivalve Jurassic in age depicted on one of the stamps "Protected Areas In Portugal", with landscape of Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Nature Park.
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| Fossil bivalve Jurassic in age stamp of Portugal 2021 MiNr.: , Scott: |
Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Nature Park covers a significant part of the Estremenho Limestone Massif (MCE). The dryness, heightened by the lack of surface watercourses, marks a landscape to which faults, escarpments and rocky outcrops add a robust and rugged outline.
Water runs through an intricate subterranean network. In turn, karst erosion produced characteristic formations – polje, limestone pavements, caves and pits, uvalas and dolines – in a rare profusion of forms.
The cavities are often fertile with speleothems such as stalactites and stalagmites. As for the fauna, more than a hundred species of birds nest here, and constitute the most sizeable group of vertebrates in the park. Some species are of national significance, such as the Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) and the red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) which nests in cavities.
The bivalves are a large class of molluscs, also known as pelecypods. They have a hard calcareous shell made of two parts or 'valves'. The soft parts are inside the shell. The shell is usually bilaterally symmetrical.
The fossil bivalve on the stamp is unfortunately not recognizable.
Commemorative Postmarks directly related to Paleontology and Paleoanthropology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, human ancestors, paleontologists
Legend is here| 10.09.2021 South Kotea [PM] | 04.07.2021 Italy [Sp] | |
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| 01.07.2021 Czech Republic [Sp] | 17.05.2021 Monaco [Sp] | 06.05.2021 Armenia [FDC] |
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References:
- [R1] Penrhyn atoll: Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, cookislands.org.uk. cookislands.travel.
- [R2] Triceratops: Wikipedia,
- [R3] Rudists: ferrebeekeeper
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