Category: Chinese Stamps ■ Product Description Issued April 15, 1958. The first stamp depicting fossils was the one issued by India in 1951, featuring an imagined depiction of a Gotong (elephant). Following this, Algeria issued a stamp featuring an ammonite fossil in 1952. In 1958, China, Switzerland, and Cuba successively featured fossils on their stamps, and since then, hundreds of fossil stamps have been issued by various countries. The Lufengosaurus in this set is the first dinosaur stamp, and the trilobite is also the first. China has a vast land area and a long history, and is one of the world's treasure troves of fossils. 4f Trilobite One of the most primitive arthropods, it lived on the seabed. Although now extinct, the horseshoe crab is the closest living animal to this group. The stamp depicts a fossil of a species that flourished in the upper Cambrian period of the Paleozoic era, approximately 200 million years ago in China, and an illustration of it. 8f Dinosaur (Lufengosaurus) A type of dinosaur from the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era, approximately 200 million years ago, fossils of which were discovered in Yunnan Province, southern China. It is one of the oldest Asian dinosaurs, a large herbivorous dinosaur that walked on two legs. Brachiosaurus, which walked on four legs and was over 30 meters long, was a more evolved dinosaur. 22f Megaloceros (Irish Elk) A large deer that lived during the Ice Age, it was 3 meters long, 2 meters tall, and the male's antlers were huge, spanning 3 to 3.5 meters. It is presumed to have lived in grasslands and was distributed in cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with fossils also found in Japan. The stamp depicts the antlers of a fossil from China, approximately 7,000 years old. ■ Product Condition The condition is good. (Please check the front and back photos for the condition of the product.)