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Archaeopteris halliana, Early Tree, Devonian Period

Prehistoric Life in Canada, The Age of Primitive Vertebrates

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue April 5, 1991
Year 1991
Quantity 3,750,000
Denomination
40¢
Perforation or Dimension 12.5 x 13.5
Series Prehistoric Life in Canada, The Age of Primitive Vertebrates
Series Time Span 1991
Printer Ashton-Potter Limited.
Postal Administration Canada

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About Stamp

The second set of four commemorative stamps in the four-year series entitled "Prehistoric Life in Canada" will be released on April 5, 1991 in se-tenant miniature sheets of 20 stamps. The series is chronological and covers an interval of time from 1900 million to 10,000 years ago. The first four stamps in this series were issued as 39-cent denominations on July 12, 1990. This year the stamps depict organisms from approximately 380 to 270 million years ago which have been discovered fossilized in different parts of the country. The only plant in this set, Archaeopteris halliana, is the subject of the third stamp. Dating from the Devonian Period, about 360 million years ago, it had a trunk over one metre diameter at the base and grew to over 25 metres high, forming the first high-crowned forests. An important part of the ecosystem in which the first land-dwelling vertebrates evolved, it was woody and looked like today's conifers. It did not however bear seeds, but reproduced by spores like ferns and mosses. This series of stamps was designed by Rolf Harder, a Montreal graphic designer. The choice of subjects was made with the assistance of Canadian paleontologists, taking into account the evolutionary importance of the life form, its location in Canada and its visual suitability for depiction on a stamp. Mr. Harder has previously designed two sets of Forts stamps (1983 and 1985), the 1980 Rehabilitation stamp and the recent Parliament definitive stamps.

Creators

Designed by Rolf P. Harder.

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Reference

Canada Post Corporation. Canada's Stamp Details, No. 1, 1991, p. 1, 18-19.

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