Stamps Portraying Paleontology

Croatia
Fossils on the West Coast of Istria
March 7, 1994
The se-tenant pair illustrates the skeletal structure and reconstructed Iguanodon and a map of the Istria Peninsula. Footprints of iguanodon have been discovered in the Early Cretaceous strata on the west coast of Istria.

Greenland
Science III - Oldest Life on Earth
October 1, 2007
In the rock strata of Isua, Greenland, there are fossils of small organic material which are 3.8 billion years old. The stamp depicts a reconstructed filament-like microorganism.

Greenland
Fossils in Greenland
May 24, 2008
Halkieria evangelista (Early Cambrian)
ichthyostega stensioei (Late Devonian)
Eudimorphodon cromptonellus (Late Triassic)
January 19, 2009
Schizoneura carcinoides (Late Triassic)
Scaphites rosenkrantzi (Late Cretaceous)
Mallotus villosus (Quaternary)

Morocco
Fossils of Morocco
October 9, 2015
Marrellomorphe of Zagora: arthropods known from Cambrian to the early Devonian.
Stromatolite of Amane n' Tourhart: layered biochemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water 3.5 billion years ago.

Slovenia
Fossil Mammals in Slovenia - Cave Bear
March 25, 2016
Cave bear remains have been discovered in a large number of sites in Europe and western Asia. The ancestors of the cave bears that inhabited the Ice Age landscape can be traced back more than a million years. The remains of Ursus deningeri (Herkova Jama), Ursus ingressus (Poto#269;ka Zijalka and many other caves) and Ursus ladinicus (Ajdovska Jama). have been identified in Slovenia. The last cave bears in Slovenia died out ca. 25,000 years ago.

Proconsul is an extinct genus of primates that existed from 23 to 25 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. Here is an image of a stamp depicting a hand holding a proconsul skull fossil discovered on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria, Kenya, printed by photogravure, and issued for use in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania on May 2, 1967, Scott No. 179, plus a photo of a partially reconstructed proconsul skull.

- nethryk

Greece
7th International Congress on Neogene Period
May 12, 1979
Neogene Period refers to the Upper Miocene (ca. 23 - 2.6 million years before present) time. The stamp design shows a fossilized fish skeleton in a piece of sedimentary rock from Milos, Cyclades.

Uruguay
Sesquicentennial of the National Museum of Natural History
September 20, 1988
Usnea densirostra, also known as lichen beard stone or yerba stone, is a species of lichen with a tree branch morphology. It is a medicinal plant widely consumed in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.
Toxodon platensis is an extinct mammal of the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs (ca. 2.6 million to 16,500 years ago). It is one of several orders of hoofed mammals indigenous to South America.

El Salvador
Fossils
July 26, 2006
Fossil fragments, including some from a mastodon, have been discovered at a new paleontological site in Apopa, about 12 km northeast of San Salvador.
Mastodon tusks (Mammuthus americanum)
Giant sloth vertebra (Priodontes maximus)
Giant sloth jaw-bone
Giant sloth foot bones (tarsals)

Peru
Fossils of Prehistoric Animals
January 16, 2007 - Purussaurus
Purussaurus is an extinct genus of giant caiman that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch, 8 million years ago. The large size and estimated strength of this animal makes it an apex predator in its ecosystem.
September 28, 2007 - Megatherium
Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene. It was one of the largest land mammals known, weighing up to 4 tonnes and measuring up to 6 m in length from head to tail.

Germany
UNESCO - Historical and Cultural Inheritance
August 20, 1998
The Messel Pit (German: Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, about 35 km southeast of Frankfurt. Bituminous shale was mined there. It has significant geological and scientific importance because of its abundance of fossils. The Messel Pit was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. The stamp features a fossilized large crocodile Asiatosuchus lived during Paleogene.

Libya
Fossils and Prehistoric Animals
November 25, 1996
The souvenir sheet includes the fossilized fish and lobster:
Mene rhombea
Mesodon macrocephalus
Eyron arctiformis

Argentina
First Dinosaur discovery in the Antarctic
March 9, 2015
The stamp commemorates the discovery of Antarctopelta oliveroi by Argentine geologists on James Ross Island in January 1986. The stamp design shows the fossil fragments and a reconstructed specimen.

Malta
Definitive Issue - History of Malta
December 28, 2009
Set of 17 stamps, the 0.01 € stamp shows the fossilized skeleton of a Maltese dwarf elephant (Elephas melitensis) of Pleistocene age.

Hungary
Geological Treasures of Hungary
June 8, 2016
The two stamps feature the fossil of a member of the laurel family from Ipolytarnóc and the fossil of an Early Oligocene plant from Óbuda. The miniature sheet features a fossilized Late Miocene swamp cypresses from Bükkábrány.