Show Your "Fossilized Stamps" - Fossils On Stamps And Covers

Oyster and Fern fossils, issued by North Korea on May 15, 1995.

Karl Ernst von Baer (1792 – 1876) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one of the most distinguished Baltic German scientists.

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Estonian Naturalist's Society, Estonia issued in 2003 a postal stationary postcard with printed stamp shows von Bear. the cachet shows turtle and Ammonite fossils.

The printed stamp on the postal stationary.

The back of the postcard shows different silhouette of creatures among them fossils of trilobite, ammonite and shell. I had to scan it is high contrast in order to get visible scan.

Fossils from Liechtenstein, designed by Heinz Preute, combined photogravure and engraved (the fossil image) by Wolfgang Seidel and issued by Liechtenstein on November 22, 2004.

- Ammonite Fossil
- Sea Urchin Fossil
- Shark's Tooth Fossil




FDC with nice Ammonite fossil on the side cachet but with rather boring postmark.

Plant fossil Livistona palibinii, issued by USSR on June 20, 1973 to publicize the XII International Botanical Congress held in Leningrad. The fossil is on the top of the congress logo.

In addition to the stamp, a postal stationary postcard was issued. The plant fossil is depicted both on the imprinted stamp and on the cachet.

One of my best covers in my paleontology collection is the FDC issued by the USSR on August 15, 1990. The stamps show reconstructions of prehistoric animals exhibited in Paleontological Museum of Moscow named after Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (1893-1966), a Russian paleontologist. The reconstructions based on fossils founded in the USSR.

The cover was sent registered from Moscow to Israel. Note the side cachet of the cover shows Ammonite fossil exhibited in the museum.


Fossil display at the museum.

Here are several stamps show paleontologists at work.

Paleontologists uncover dinosaur bones, issued by Thailand on January 1, 1992 to commemorate the Department of Mineral Resources.

Excavation of a Tarbosaurus dinosaur skeleton by the Polish-Mongolian paleontological expedition to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, issued by Poland on May 22, 1980 as one in a set about Polish scientific expeditions.

Discovering prehistory, SS issued by Malawi on December 30, 1993. The margins show paleontologists excavating dinosaur skeleton bones.

George Clark (1807-1873), discovered the first dodo subfossil bones on Mauritius, issued by Mauritius on June 9, 1997.

Fossils, issued for use in the Portuguese colony of Angola on October 31, 1970.

- Fossil skull of Angolasaurus Bocagei
- Fossil shark tooth - Procarcharodon megalodon L.
- Fish fossil - Microceratus angolensis teix
- Ammonite Nostoceras
- Sea urchin fossil Rotula orbiculus angolensis

Here is a small selection of stamps show fish fossils.

Mene psarianosi symeonidis, Fish fossil, Tertiary period, issued by Greece on May 12, 1979 to publicize the International conference on the early Tertiary time in the Mediterranean region.

Belonostomus comptoni, Fish fossil from Ceara, issued by Brazil on July 8, 1975.

Numidiopleura enigmatica, Fish fossil, Miocene, issued by Tunisia on July 8, 1998.

Dapedium, Fish fossil, issued by Luxembourg on September 10, 1984.

Fish fossil from the Oligocene period, issued by Slovenia on March 24, 2004.

Fossils of Nepal, issued by Nepal on December 31, 2013. Illustrations by Rajman Man Maharjan, the artist of the Natural History Museum of Nepal.

Molar teeth of Giraffa punjabiensis - Extinct Giraffe
Skull of Archidiskidon planifrons - Extinct Elephant
Molar teeth of Ramapithecus sivalensis - Extinct Primate
Skull of Hexaprotodon sivalensis - Extinct Hippopotamus

Fossilized prehistoric animal skulls found in Macedonia, issued by Macedonia on September 17, 1998.

- Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus)
- Monkey (Mesopithecus pentelici)
- Tragoceros, bovid ungulate***
- Rhinoceros (Aceratherium incisivum)




***Bovid Ungulate - The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, bison, buffalo, antelopes, sheep and goats. Ungulates are primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.

Anomalocaris ("abnormal shrimp") was a giant, shrimp-like predator from the Cambrian period, about 500 million years ago. Anomalocaris had a segmented body, large compound eyes, and a pair of spiny, grasping appendages used to capture prey. Its circular mouth, lined with sharp plates, was adapted for crushing the hard shells of trilobites. Fossils of Anomalocaris have been found in sites like the Chengjiang biota in China. Here is a stamp issued by PR of China on November 11, 1999 shows the Chinese Anomalocaris fossil.

Maxicard with regular postmark.

Reconstruction of Anomalocaris - Wikipedia.

Fossils and Minerals, issued for use in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique on January 15, 1971.

- Endothiodon ("inner tooth"), an extinct genus of medium to large dicynodont, plant-eating, mammal-like reptile from the Late Permian.

- Ammonite fossil Lytodiscoides conduciensis.

- Fossil of Glossopteris branchai, extinct genus of seed-bearing plants that thrived during the late Paleozoic Era, especially in the Permian period (about 299–252 million years ago).

- Petrified Wood

The set contains more five mineral stamps.

Martian Meteorite Alh84001 - Fossils on meteorite from Mars

Researchers testing a meteorite from Mars say that fossilized evidence shows that primitive life may have existed on Mars 3.6 to 4 billion years ago.

Issued by Guyana on October 7, 1996.

Fossils found in Niger, issued by Niger on November 15, 1976 and December 14, 1977.

- Dinosaur skeleton, Ouranosaurus nigeriensis, Early Cretaceous, 110 MY ago.

epreuve de luxe.

- Crocodile skull, Sarcosuchus Imperator, 112 MY ago.

Mammoth skeleton on postal stationary stamp and postmark and the reconstruction of the mammoth on the cachet, Mammoth Siegsdorf museum, Germany, 2015.

Cover sent from Germany to Israel, stamps cancelled with the mammoth postmark.

Mammoth skull and a Mammoth reconstruction, issued by Japan on March 25, 2005 to publicize the World Exposition "EXPO 2005" held in Aichi, Japan.