URUGUAY
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| Catalog # | Denom. | Date | Turtle | Description | Comment | |||||||||
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| None | Unknown | Turtle on Parade Float | Aerogramme inscribed "Museo del Carnaval" w/ scenes of revelers. Lower left corner shows a float in a parade with a very large figure of a turtle at the front. | Upper right corner has a small circle w/ an airplane in the center and the inscription "Aerograma Internacional - Port Paye" around the perimeter. | ||||||||||
| SC | 1713 | 6p | 26 Mar 98 | Testudinites sellowi | Se-tenant block of four stamps depicting fossils. | Turtle on one stamp only. | ||||||||
| SC | 1713 | a | 6p | 26 Mar 98 | Testudinites sellowi | An extinct species. | Fossil first discovered in 1830. | |||||||
| SC | 1893 | $11 | 15 Feb 01 | See Comment Column | Se-tenant block of four depicting two frogs and two turtles. | One Acanththochelys (=Platemys) spixii and one Phrynops hillarii. | ||||||||
| SC | 1893 | b | $11 | 15 Feb 01 | Acanthochelys spixii | One individual facing left. | Scientific name is Platemys spixii according to some authorities. Iverson assigned this species to Acanthochelys in 1986, but this has not been universally accepted. | |||||||
| SC | 1893 | c | $11 | 15 Feb 01 | Phrynops hillarii | One individual facing right. | From Scott Uruguay #1893. | |||||||
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