Showing posts with label Madagascar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madagascar. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Sauralophus (Madagascar Postage stamp)

  Saurolophus is a genus of large saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs that lived about 70.0–68.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia; it is one of the few genera of dinosaurs known from multiple continents. It is distinguished by a spike-like crest which projects up and back from the skull. Saurolophus was a herbivorous dinosaur which could move about either bipedally or quadrupedally.
  • Series: Prehistoric Animals Dinosaurs
  • Country: Malagasy Republic
  • Year: 1988
  • Subject: Animals
  • Face value: 600 Fmg

Triceratops (Madagascar Postage stamp)

  Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago (Mya) in what is now North America. It is one of the last known non-avian dinosaur genera, and became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago.
  • Series: Prehistoric Animals Dinosaurs
  • Country: Malagasy Republic
  • Year: 1988
  • Subject: Animals
  • Face value:  450 Fmg
  • Number of Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue 902

Arsinoitherium (Madagascar Postage stamp)

  Arsinoitherium is an extinct genus of paenungulate mammal belonging to the extinct order Embrithopoda. It is related to elephants, sirenians, hyraxes and the extinct desmostylians. Arsinoitheres were elephant-like herbivores that lived during the late Eocene and the early Oligocene of northern Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago, in areas of tropical rainforest and at the margin of mangrove swamps. A newly discovered species, Arsinoitherium giganteum, lived in Ethiopia ~27 million years ago.
  • Series: Prehistoric Animals Dinosaurs
  • Country: Malagasy Republic
  • Year: 1988
  • Subject: Animals
  • Face value: 250 Fmg
  • Number of Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue 901

Stegosaurus (Madagascar Postage stamp)

  Stegosaurus is a type of armored dinosaur. Their fossil bones have been found in rocks dated to the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian ages), between 155 to 150 million years ago, in the western United States and Portugal. Several species have been classified in the upper Morrison Formation of the western U.S, though only three are universally recognized; S. stenops, S. ungulatus and S. sulcatus. The remains of over 80 individual animals of this genus have been found. Stegosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus; the latter two may have been predators of it.
  • Series: Prehistoric Animals Dinosaurs
  • Country: Malagasy Republic
  • Year: 1988
  • Subject: Animals
  • Face value: 80 Fmg
  • Number of Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue 900

Tyrannosaurus (Madagascar Postage stamp)

  Tyrannosaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning "king" in Latin), commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. Tyrannosaurus lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. Tyrannosaurus had a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids. Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
  • Series: Prehistoric Animals Dinosaurs
  • Country: Malagasy Republic
  • Year: 1988
  • Subject: Animals
  • Face value: 20 Fmg
  • Number of Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue 899