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2016Prehistoric Animals - Sheetlets

Sheetlets
GBP £24.87
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Technical details
  • 22.01.2016
  • Razvan Popescu
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  • Offset
  • 4 Colours
  • Stamp size: 48 x 33 mm, Minisheet size: 134 x 134 mm, Block size: 112 x 148 mm (in philatelic album)
  • 2.00 Lei; 3.00 Lei; 3.30 Lei; 14.50 Lei
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About Prehistoric Animals

70 million years ago, the territory that is today Tara Hategului was part of a tropical island in the Tethys Ocean, the ocean separating Eurasia from Gondwana, following the fragmentation of the single continent, Pangaea. The island was populated by an exotic association of prehistoric animals, whose remains are today preserved in the rocks of Tara Hategului. Here were discovered numerous sites with bones of crocodiles, turtles, mammals, flying reptiles, birds and a large number of fossils of dwarf dinosaurs, herbivores and carnivores, unique in the world, together with nests of dinosaur eggs.

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