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

Several stamps show petrified wood.

Petrified wood, Mineral Heritage set, issued by the USA on June 13, 1974.

Paleontology of Peru, issued by Peru on October 3, 2000.

Petrified wood, Mineral definitive stamps, issued by Kenya on December 31, 1977.

Petrified forest of Chemnitz, issued by Germany on August 7, 2003.

Petrified wood, Gemstones set, issued by Indonesia May 20, 1998.

Paleontological Finds in Croatia, issued by Croatia on November 11, 1997.

- Gomphotherium angustidents - Prehistoric Elephant - stamp shows fossilized parts like teeth and jaw - 18 MY ago.
- Viviparus novskaensis - fossilised Novska Water Snail - 100 MY ago.

Fossils and their reconstructions, issued for use in British Antarctic Territory on March 27, 1991.

Petrified Nothofagus wood - Late Cretaceous forest

Fossilized skull of Hypsilophodont dinosaur

Fossilized tooth of Frilled shark - Chlamydoselanchus

Fossilized vertebra of Mosasaur aquatic reptile

Fossilized Arsinotherium zittelli skeleton, rhinoceros-like herbivore lived during the Late Eocene and the Early Oligocene of North Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago, issued by Egypt on October 9, 1979 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Egyptian geological museum.

Fossilized dinosaur skeletons

Iguanodon bernissartensis skeleton, issued by Belgium on May 28, 1966 to commemorate the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences of Belgium.

Gasparinisaurus and Patagosaurus skeletons (on the stamp backgrounds), issued by Argentina on November 28, 1998.


Allosaurus skeleton in the Natural History Museum of Paris, issued by France on June 16, 2000.

Color assay of the French stamp.

Fossil Shells, issued by Mauritania on July 31, 1972.

- Spirifer - a genus of marine brachiopods, Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Late Triassic (Carnian), 490-200 MY ago, with a global distribution.
- Gryphaea - a genus of extinct oysters, marine bivalve mollusks.


Stamps were revalued and reissued on January 28, 1974.

Palaeoloxodon recki, often known by the synonym Elephas recki, is an extinct species of elephant native to Africa and West Asia from the Pliocene or Early Pleistocene to the Middle Pleistocene (5 MY - 130,000 yeas). During most of its existence, the species (in its broad sense) represented the dominant elephant species in East Africa.

Fossil bones of Elephas recki, issued by Djibouti on November 12, 1990.

Vienna Museum of Natural History, Cente-
nary Exhibition

Austria Scott 1032 1976
Ammonite fossil

Cave Bear skeleton, issued by Moldova on May 18, 2024 to commemorate the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History.

Brachiopod Shell fossil (Karavankina schellwieni), 275 MY ago, issued by Slovenia on March 29, 1995.

Fossils of Transkei, issued for use in Transkei on September 17, 1992.

- Pseudomelania sutherlandi
- Gaudryceras denseplicatum
- Neithea quinquecostata
- Pugilina (Mayeria) acutlcarlnatus

Slovenia issued during years 1993-2020 a series of 12 stamps about "Fossils of Slovenia". Here are four of them.

Fossils of Dolzan Gorge: Schwagerina Carniolica, marine foraminifera, a type of single-celled protist that has a shell, Late Paleozoic era, especially Permian period (~299–252 million years ago) - 1993

Paladin (Kaskia) bedici, Trilobite, Late Carboniferous, about 290 million years ago - 2000

Starfish fossil - 2001

Hairfly (Bibio), insect from the Oligocene - 2002

The 50th anniversary of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow, issued by India on September 1, 1997. The first two stamps show plant fossils and the rest two stamps show reconstructions of prehistoric plants.

- Birbalsahnia divyadarshanii
- Glossopteris
- Pentoxylon
- Williamsonia sewardiana

Archaeopteryx fossil discovered in Solnhofen limestone in Bavaria and described by Hermann von Meyer on postmark applied in Solnhofen in 1986.



Same fossil on UK stamp issued on August 3, 1999 dedicated to Charles Darwin evolution theory.

Nautilus and Ammonite fossils, issued by Bosnia Herzegovina on March 22, 2001: