URUGUAY, 1997  

Uruguay 1997
'Fósiles del Uruguay'
 
Five self-adhesive stamps @ 5 $. se-tenant;
Devincenzia gallinali, Smilodon populator, Mesosaurus tenuidens,
Doedicurus clavicaudatus, 'Artigasia magna' (Roedor Gigantesco).
 
Issue date: 5-th of May.
 
C a t a l o g u e    n u m b e r s
Michel  2243-2247 Stanley G  2336-2340
Yv et Tel  1626-1630 Scott  1660a-e

The stamps show reconstructions, not fossils.
'Roedor gigantesco' is 'giant rodent', the genus has been renamed Josephoartigasia. Artigas is a town in the north of Uruguay, in turn named after one of the founders of the state of Uruguay.
Smilodon probably after Ch. Knight.
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