13 October 2019

Sunday Stamps | Pneumatoraptor & T. Rex

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Dinosaurs, Dragons, or Mythical Beasts. I thought I would have nothing to share, but then I remembered this stamp which I got a month ago:


This Hungarian stamp was issued on 3 September 2018, and belongs to a 6-stamps set entitled Prehistoric Animals - Dinosaurs. I have only got the Pneumatoraptor fodori.

The type species is Pneumatoraptor fodori, named for Géza Fodor, who provided funding for the dig. The genus name Pneumatoraptor refers to the pneumaticity of the bone, the hollow spaces that would have been filled with air sacs in life. The holotype specimen is identified by the catalogue number MTM V.2008.38.1. and housed at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest.



And only few days ago I received the four stamps depicting the fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex, issued by USPS on 29 August. It has been quite difficult to take a proper picture of these, because they are lenticular.


One design illustrates a face-to-face encounter with a T. rex approaching through a forest clearing; another shows the same young adult T. rex with a young Triceratops — both dinosaurs shown in fossil form.



The third and fourth stamps depict a newly hatched T. rex covered with downy feathers and a bare-skinned juvenile T. rex chasing a primitive mammal.


6 comments:

  1. I like the prehistoric scenes in the Hungarian stamps, the first has just the right amount of disquiet.

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  2. "disquiet" good description, Joy!
    the baby looks so cute.

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    1. I agree with the word disquiet.
      Dinosaurs never seems cute to me, sorry.

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  3. Pneumatoraptor makes me thing it is something you blow up. I would not have recognised T Rex from the USA stamps.

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    1. Hopefully you'll never encounter a T. Rex... :D

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  4. The US stamps are fun, however I like the Hungarian sheet more - it is a stunning scene.

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