Stamps Portraying Paleontology

Luxembourg
EUROPA - Underwater Fauna and Flora
May 14, 2024
The stamp set depicts Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur, two extinct marine reptiles thrived during much of the Mesozoic era.

Great Britain
The Age of the Dinosaurs
March 12, 2024
These two stamps depict Megalosaurus (a large carnivorous theropod dinosaur) and Cryptoclidus (a marine reptile) of the Mesozoic era in England.

MADAGASCAR
1970
Ammonite fossil

The Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut or the Qu'aiti Sultanate of Shihr and Mukalla was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Stamps were issued between 1955-1968.

In 1968, the Sultanate issued a set of 14 stamps, in seven se-tenants, show prehistoric and modern animals. Designs are based on paintings by the Czech artist Zdenek Burian who specialized in paintings of prehistoric animals and man:

- Saber-toothed tiger and Leopards
- Dinosaurs and Tylosaurus
- Brontosaurus and Shark
- Mastodon and Rhinoceros
- Kangaroos and Zebras
- Rhamphorhynchus and Condor
- Cave man and Chimpanzee

A set of two stamps depicting animals have lived in the land of Israel, issued by Israel on August 28, 2018:

Lioness and Lioness skull, Jaffa, Late Bronze Age, (1300-1200 BCE)
Elephant and tusk, Holon, Acheulean Stone-work (1,000,000 – 120,000 years ago)

Prehistoric Animals of Australia, issued by Australia in a mini sheet contains two sets on September 4, 1997:

- Rhoetosaurus brownei
- Mcnamaraspis kaprios
- Ninjemys oweni
- Paracyclotosaurus davidi
- Woolungasaurus glendowerensis

Dinos of Canada, issued by Canada on May 26, 2016:

- Troodon inequalis
- Dimetrodon borealis
- Comox Valley elasmosaur
- Cypretherium coarctatum
- Acrotholus audeti

San Marino
EUROPA - National Archaeological Discoveries
February 11, 2025
The stamp and minisheet depict San Marino Whale (Titanocetus sammarinensis), a cetacean dating back to the Miocene period, whose fossilized remains were found in a quarry near the summit of Mount Titano.

Prehistoric animals, issued by Mongolia on May 7, 1977.

- Mongolemys elegans
- Embolotherium ergiliense
- Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
- Entelodon
- Spirocerus kiakhtensis
- Hipparion
- Aurochs (Bos primigenius)

A pair of FDC's sent to Arcadia, USA.


Arrival postmarks were applied on the back of both covers. I scanned one of them.

Prehistoric Fauna of El Salvador, issued by El Salvador on September 7, 1979.

- Mastodon - kind of mammoth
- Smilodon sp. - Saber-toothed Cat
- Toxodon platensis - large ungulate (mammals with hooves)
- Mammuthus columbi - Columbian mammoth
- Eremotherium carolinensis - Ground sloth
- Borophagus cynoides - Dog-like carnivore

China
Natural World Heritage - Chengjiang Fossil Site
April 18, 2024
The stamp set features Cambrian (515 million years ago) fossils of Sinensis, ringed worms and sucking archaea, Fuxian Lake Insect.

Mongolia
Ice Age Animals
December 21, 2023
The stamp set features Steppe Bison (Bison priscus), Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), East Asian Ostrich (Struthio anderssoni), Wooly Rhinoceros (Coleodonta anntiquuitatis).