1 Franc 1966 - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Iguanodon bernissartentis


1 Franc 1966 - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Iguanodon bernissartentis
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General Description : The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is a museum in the Belgian capital of Brussels dedicated to natural history. Its most important pieces are 30 fossilized Iguanodon skeletons, which were discovered in 1878 in Bernissart. The dinosaur hall of the museum is the world's largest museum hall completely dedicated to dinosaurs. Another famous piece is the Ishango bone, which was discovered in 1960 by Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt.

Iguanodon (pron.: /ɨˈɡwɑːnədɒn/ i-GWAH-nə-don; meaning "iguana-tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that existed roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids of the mid-Jurassic and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous. While many species have been classified in the genus Iguanodon, dating from the late Jurassic Period to the late Cretaceous Period of Asia, Europe, and North America, research in the first decade of the 21st century suggests that there is only one well-substantiated species: I. bernissartensis, which lived from the late Barremian to the earliest Aptian ages (Early Cretaceous) in Belgium and possibly elsewhere in Europe, between about 126 and 125 million years ago. Iguanodon were large, bulky herbivores. Distinctive features include large thumb spikes, which were possibly used for defence against predators, combined with long prehensile fifth fingers able to forage for food.
Face value 1 Franc
Catalog code (Michel) BE 1427
Catalog code (Scott) BE 664
Catalog code Yvert et Tellier BE 1374 Stanley Gibbons BE 1967 AFA number BE 1448 Belgium BE 1374 Unificato BE 1374
Stamp colour black / green
Stamp use Commemorative stamp
Print run 5.000.000
Issue date 28/05/1966
Designer Henri Decuyper / Oscar Bonnevalle
Print technique photogravure and recess
Perforation 1 1/2
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