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ERNST, Hans Ulrich & Oliver Hampe

Fossil fishes worldwide – Fossile Fische weltweit

The World of Prehistoric Fishes and their Reflection in Philately - Die Welt der prähistorischen Fische und ihr Spiegelbild in der Philatelie

2018. [German and English] – 240 pp., 339 color and 9 black-and-white figures.
24.6 × 21.4 cm, hardcover.

ISBN: 978-3-89937-241-0
SKU: 978­3­89937­241­0 Categories: Paleontology, Paleontology - Books

48,00 €

plus shipping costs

The book is aimed at both philatelists and collectors of fossil fish. It gives a detailed account of all stamps, postmarks and postal stationery known to date. To explain the philatelic material, a short description of the appearance, size and distribution as well as a photograph of the fossil are included. Here it was our endeavour to photographically document the same species if possible, or a closely related species of the same genus if it could not be attained.

 

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The interest in collecting stamps starts in early age. First one collects stamps of all kind before one begins to specialize and to collect stamps of one or the other country or stamps of special themes, like historical persons of a country or ships, airplanes, trains, or animals. For years living fishes are a wide field for stamp collectors, because fishes appear on many stamps, especially on stamps of countries with an oceanic coastline or on stamps of island states. Fossils appeared first on stamps in the 1950s, nevertheless fossils appeared more frequently on stamps only in the 1980s so that it became of interest to specialize in stamps with fossils. The stamp issuers always tried and try to publish stamps, which people find of interest to collect and buy. Dinosaurs became on vogue in the 1970s and thereafter, and people were interested to see dinosaurs on stamps. Thus more and more countries issued dinosaur stamps in the 1980s, the 1990s and in the first 10 years of 21st century. The dinosaurs were often broadly interpreted and included fossil mammals too, especially if the latter were big. Other fossils were only presented rarely. One has to search for fossil invertebrates on stamps and even more for fossil plants on stamps. Fossil fish are there even better represented on stamps than invertebrates and plants, but still they are not easy to find because they are not specifically catalogued or presented together in a series. They have not found the interest dinosaurs have. Here to the merit of the authors, they have assembled presentations of fossil fishes on stamps, as postmarks, cancellations and postal stationeries.

In contrast to dinosaurs on stamps, fossil fishes appear often on stamps of the country where they actually occur. Examples are the lungfish Microceratodus angolensis, which is known only from Angola, the Cretaceous fish Vinctifer comptoni of the well known locality Chapada do Araripe in northeastern Brazil (state of Ceará), the sarcopterygian
Eusthenopteron foordi, which was long taken as a closest relative of the tetrapods, of the Upper Devonian locality Miguasha in Quebec, Canada, and fossil fishes of Australia, China, Greenland, Latvia, Lebanon and many other countries. Nevertheless like in dinosaurs few forms appear again and again as the big and ferocious looking ones like the about 6 m long placoderm Dinichthys / Dunkleosteus from the Upper Devonian of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and the even larger shark Carcharocles megalodon, a close relative of the Great White of today.

North Korea offers a special example with the sarcopterygian Eusthenopteron foordi on a block with five stamps. It is a representation of comparative anatomy and evolution. The internal skeleton of the pectoral fin of Eusthenopteron foordi is compared with the wing of a bird and a bat, with the pectoral fin of a dolphin, the foreleg of a horse and the forearm of a human. And so that everyone understands that similarity is not compared here only, but that it is a demonstration of evolution from the pectoral fin to different expressions of the same basic structure within tetrapods, the picture of Darwin is placed besides Eusthenopteron.

Wrongly, the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae (Coelacanthida or Actinistia) was connected with the origin of tetrapods. Coelacanths were well known in the fossil record, when Latimeria chalumnae was discovered 1938/39, so that J. L. B. Smith identified the new fish immediately, when he saw the crude sketch by Mrs. Latimer. Latimeria is a unique fish within extant living fishes, the only one of its kind. It is close related to its Cretaceous forerunners. Therefore it fits well within the representation of fossil fishes on stamps.

The authors present the fossil fishes on stamps in a systematic order of the fishes starting with the agnathans (Agnatha) progressing to jawed fishes (Gnathostomata), which include placoderms (Placodermi), cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyans), acanthodians and bony fishes (Osteichthyes or Osteognathostomata). The bony fishes represent two
groups, ray fin fishes (Actinopterygii) and lobe fin fishes (Sarcopterygii), which include the tetrapods. The reader gets thus a short introduction into the hierarchy of fishes. The frequency, with which the different taxa appear on stamps, has nothing to do with the frequency of fossil or extant fishes. The actinopterygians, which form 96 % of todays fishes and which were common in the fossil record, are underrepresented on stamps. In contrast the rare Latimeria can be found frequently on stamps.

That shows, that fossil fishes are selected for different reasons to be placed on stamps, and their appearance on stamps does not follow their frequency of appearance in the fossil record. That is shown in the book and makes it interesting for the reader who wants to know more about the figured fossil fishes. Thus the authors did a great job to bring together the information of these underrepresented fossils on stamps.

Hans-Peter Schultze, Januar 2016
Professor emeritus, University of Kansas

Vorwort/Preface 7
Einleitung/Introduction 9
1. Paläoichthyologie – die Wissenschaft von den ausgestorbenen Fischen und Beispiele berühmter Fossilfundstellen/Palaeoichthyology – research field on extinct fishes and famous fossil localities 11
Beispiele berühmter Fossilfundstellen/Famous fossil localities 16
Hunsrückschiefer 16
Solnhofen 17
Monte Bolca 17
2. Agnatha – Kieferlose/Agnatha – “No jaws” 19
2.1 Überklasse/Superclass Pteraspidomorphi 19
Arandaspis sp. 19
Drepanaspis sp. 20/21
Doryaspis sp. 23
Pteraspis sp. 24
2.2 Superclass/Überklasse Anaspida 25/26
Pharyngolepis sp. 26/27
2.3 Überklasse/Superclass Thelodonti 28
Thelodontiformes indet. 28/29
2.4 Superclass/Überklasse Osteostracomorphi 29/30
Class/Klasse Cephalaspidomorphi 29/30
Boreaspis sp. 30
Hemicyclaspis sp. 30/31
Thyestes sp. 32/33
Cephalaspis lyelli 33
Palaeospondylus gunni 34/35
3. Überklasse/Superclass Gnathostomata – Kiefermünder 36
3.1 Klasse/Class Placodermi 36
Gemuendina stuertzi 38
Bothriolepis sp. 38/39
Asterolepis ornata 42
Pterichthyodes milleri 43
Ctenurella sp. 44
Coccosteus sp. 45/46
Dinichthys sp. 47
Dunkleosteus sp. 51/52
Mcnamaraspis kaprios 55
3.2 Klasse/Class Chondrichthyes 57
Ischyodus sp. 60
Deltoptychius sp. 62
Helicoprion sp. 62/63
Cladoselache sp. 65
Cobelodus aculeatus 66/67
Stethacanthus sp. 67
Orthacanthus sp. 69
Xenacanthus sp. 71
Xenacanthus decheni 72/72
Triodus sp. 74
Triodus sessilis 74/75
Hybodus sp. 76/77
Tristychius sp. 78/79
Lamniformes indet. 79
Squalicorax sp. 80
Carcharias sp. 82
Scapanorhynchus sp. 83
Carcharocles megalodon 84
Galeocerdo sp. 90/91
Sphyrna sp. 92
Chlamydoselachus sp. 93/94
Hexanchus sp. 94/95
Spathobatis sp. 95/96
Myliobatis sp. 96/97
3.3 Klasse/Class Acanthodii 98
Climatius reticulatus 98
Parexus sp. 99/100
Acanthodes bronni 101
Acanthodes gracilis 103
3.4 Klasse/Class Actinopterygii 104
Amblypterus latus 105
Palaeoniscum freieslebeni 107
?Aestuarichthyes sp. 109
Platysomus sp. 109/110
Perleidus madagascariensis 110/111
Protopsephurus liui 111/112
Semionotiforme indet. 113
Semionotus bergeri 116
Lepidotes minor 116/117
Dapedium sp. 118
Lepisosteus sp. 120
Turbomesodon relegans 121
Caturus sp. 123
Aspidorhynchus acutirostris 124
Vinctifer comptoni 125/126
Strobilodus giganteus 126
Ionoscopus cyprinoides 127/128
Xiphactinus audax 128/129
Gillicus arcuatus 133
Lycoptera davidi 134
Diplomystus dentatus 135/136
Clupea hungarica 137
Palaeocarassius priscus 138/139
Leptolepides sp. 139/140
Mallotus villosus 140
Dercetis sp. 141/142
Enchodus sp. 144
Eurypholis sp. 145
Nematonotus longispinus 146
Aipichthyoides galeatus 147
Pycnosteroides sp. 148/149
Hippocampus sarmaticus 150
Priscacara liops 151/152
Lates sp. 153
Dapalis macrurus 154
Palaeoperca proxima 155/156
Apostasis croatica 157
Mene sp. 158
Mene rhombea 159/160
Mene psarianosi 161
Chaetodon hoeferi 162/163
Eoplatax papilio 163/164
?Exellia sp. 165
Protosiganus glaronensis 166/167
Pleuronectiforme indet.167/168
Numidiopleura enigmatica 169
3.5 Klasse/Class Sarcopterygii 170
Strunius sp. 171
Libys superbus 172
Griphognathus sp. 172/173
Microceratodus angolensis 175
Gyroptychius sp. 175/176
Eusthenopteron sp. 176
Eusthenopteron foordi 179
Panderichthys sp. 181
4. Der Quastenflosser Latimeria/The coelacanth Latimeria 183
Der erste Quastenflosser/The first coelacanth 183
The second coelacanth/Der zweite Quastenflosser 184/185
.  und die Folgen/.  and the consequences 186
Lebendbeobachtungen/Live observations 187
Der Quastenflosser vor Mosambik und Madagaskar/The coelacanths off Mozambique and Madagascar 187/188
Latimeria menadoensis 188
Südafrika, Kenia und Tansania/South Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania 188/189
Kannte man den Quastenflosser schon vor 1938?/Was the coelacanth already known before 1938? 189
Anatomie/Anatomy 190
Reproduction/Fortpflanzung 190/191
Lebensraum/Habitat 191
Sensory organs/Sinnesorgane 191/192
Nahrung/Nutrition 192
Verbreitung/Distribution 193/192
Gentechnische Untersuchungen/Genetic analyses 193/192
Latimeria in der Philatelie/ Latimeria in philately 193
Latimeria chalumnae 193
Latimeria menadoensis 208
5. Stilisierte und nicht bestimmbare Fische auf Marken und Stempeln/Stylised and indeterminable fish on stamps and postal stamps 209
6 Beutefische und Hintergrundmotive/Prey fish and background figures 214
7. Fische, die keiner wissenschaftlichen Überprüfung standhalten/Fishes that cannot be proved scientifically 214
8. Illegale Ausgaben Westsaharas/Illegal issues of Western Sahara 215
9. Literaturverzeichnis/References 217
9.1 Philatelie und Geschichte/philately and history 217
9.2 Paläontologie und Zoologie/Palaeontology and Zoology 217
9.3 Quastenflosser Latimeria/coelacanth Latimeria 224
Abbildungsverzeichnis/Index of Illustrations 226
Tabellen/Tables 227
Hinweis/Annotation 239

Dr. med. Hans Ulrich Ernst, born 1949, studied medicine in Cologne and was head physician at a specialist clinic for orthopaedic rehabilitation. Since his school days he has collected stamps, including the motif "fossils". For some years now he has also been interested in fossils themselves and began to build up a fossil collection.

PD Dr. Oliver Hampe, born in 1961, studied chemistry and geology-palaeontology in Düsseldorf and Mainz from 1981 to 1987. In 1991, the graduate geologist completed his doctorate at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In 1996 he began working as a curator in the vertebrate palaeontological collections at the Museum für Naturkunde. In 2003 he habilitated in palaeobiology and zoology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focuses on extinct aquatic vertebrates (sharks, plesiosaurs, whales), palaeopathology and geoarchaeology. He teaches comparative anatomy and vertebrate evolution at the Faculty of Life Sciences at Humboldt University.

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