Dinosaurs On Stamps

Not sure what year this one is... Japan Dinosaur

"Not sure what year this one is"
First time issued in 1999, then reprinted in 2006

Nells250 - that is 1 of 2 from the "Prefecture series"
this was issued on Feb 22, 1999 as Z273 & Z274 (Scott #).
BUT ... may also be the 2006 reprint issue that is NOT listed.
Unless you have the selvage, you can't tell the difference.
I also don't have the selvage/margin.

Postal Stationery pf China 2020.
Similar to postal stationery from 2002 - the same design of imprinted stamp, but different face value.
The stamp from 2002 has a value of 0.80 when the stamp 2020 has a value of 1.20.


According to the text on the reverse side of the cover, the new face value introduced in 2009. The cachet of postal stationery from 2020 shows reconstruction of the Chinese Duck-billed Dinosaur (Hadrosaur)- Shantungosaurus, insted of his fossilized skeleton on postal stationery from 2002.



Shantungosaurus, meaning "Shandong Lizard", is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs who lived in Late Cretaceous perid (100-65 million years ago) on the territory od modern China.

There are only one species of the dinosaur - Shantungosaurus giganteus, the largest Hadrosaur known to date. It was up to 17 meters long and have weighed as much as 16 tonnes.

First described in 1973, Shantungosaurus is known from over five incomplete skeletons. Chinese scientist Xing Xu and his colleagues indicate that Shantungosaurus is very similar to and shares many unique characters with Edmontosaurus, forming a Asian node of Edmontosaurus–Shantungosaurus clade, based on the new materials recovered in Shandong.

More info is here:

New Dinosaur found in Australia ~ Largest ever
"Cooper" 95 Million years old.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06...ck/100196458

No doubt we shall get a stamp in the future...

dinosaur skeletons exhibited in the Natural History Museum of Humboldt University in Berlin, issued by DDR on April 17, 1990 to mark the 100th anniversary of the museum:

https://goscf.com/t/81686&whichpage=2#747891

Dicraeosaurus
Kentrurosaurus
Dysalotosaurus
Brachiosaurus (2 last stamps)

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, issued by Yemen on November 27, 1990:

Dinosaurs, issued by Libya on November 26, 1996. Stamps show Stegosaurus, Pteranodon and Allosaurus:



Issued in SS with the complete set including three fossil stamps

A group of Dinosaur postmarks issued in the USA:

Dinosaurs, designed by John Gurche and issued by the USA on October 1, 1989.

- Stegosaurus
- Brontosaurus (Apatosaurus)
- Tyrannosaurus
- Pteranodon

FDC and FD commemorative postmark

Prehistoric animal footprints, issued by Lesotho on January 5, 1970;

- Dinosaur footprints at Moyeni
- Gryponyx
- Plateosauravus
- Tritylodon
- Massospondylus

Dinosaurs, issued by Laos on February 20, 1995:

- Trachodon
- Protoceratops
- Apatosaurus
- Stegosaurus
- Tyrannosaurus

I had always doubted the postal validity of Guinea's 1987 prehistoric animal series until I found this one actually used on cover! Postmarked 2/8/88, from Conakry to Göttingen, featuring the 50F Dimetrodon stamp from the series (I know Dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur... it's a synapsid... but this seems to be the best thread to post it on).