Author: thedigitalphilatelist

Glossopteris is the largest and best-known genus of the extinct Permian order of seed plants known as Glossopteridales. The genus Glossopteris refers only to leaves, within a framework of form genera used in paleobotany. Species of Glossopteris were the dominant trees of the middle to high-latitude lowland vegetation across the…

Luangwa is an extinct genus of traversodontid cynodonts. The species Luangwa drysdalli was discovered 1963 in the valley of the Luangwa river in Zambia, Africa. Luangwa lived in the Triassic period 240 Million years ago. The species is named after Alan Roy Drysdall (1934–2017), an English geologist who worked in…

Zambiasaurus is an extinct genus of dicynodonts that was discovered in the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Ntawere Formation of Zambia, southern Africa. It was a large dicynodont, reconstructed using several fossil fragments, in majority belonging to probably a juvenile Zambiasaurus submersus. Details Designer: John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd, Leeds, England Printer: Questa Colour…

Homo rhodesiensis is the species name proposed by Arthur Smith Woodward (1921) to classify Kabwe 1 (the “Kabwe skull” or “Broken Hill skull”, also “Rhodesian Man”), a Middle Stone Age fossil recovered from Broken Hill mine in Kabwe, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). I The stamp appears to be a complete…

Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known.  Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia. Rubidgea is a genus of gorgonopsid from the upper Permian of South Africa and Tanzania. Rubidgea is part…

Details Date of Issue: 1 February 1973 Date Withdrawn:  Date Invalidated: Designer: John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd, Leeds, England Printer: Questa Colour Security Printers Pty Ltd (House of Questa) Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14 x 13.5 (comb) Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A : 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B Sheet: Quantity: Subjects 4n…