EST AFRICA
Kenia - Uganda - Tanzania
Ostafricanich Gemeinsschaft
Dryopithecus (Proconsul) africanus
Part of a set of 4 vals.
2.May.1967 - Archeology
Michel nš. 164/167
Yvert nš. 161/164
1975
3.November.1975 - African art and culture
festival.
3 Sh., stone age man butchering a Hippopotamus.
Part of a set of 4 vals.
Michel nš. 303/306
Stanley Gibbons: 386.
Yvert nš. 301/304
The same set plus a miniature sheet containing the set was also issued on the
15.January.1977 by:
Kenya, Scott: 75, 75a;
Stanley Gibbons: 79, 80,
Tanzania, Scott: 73, 73a,
Stanley Gibbons: 200, 201,
Uganda, Scott: 166, 166a,
Stanley Gibbons: 186, 187.
Extinct group of apes, now considered a subgroup of Dryopithecus.
Proconsul fossils have been discovered in East Africa.
It is a probable ancestor of the chimpanzee and lived from 12 to 25 million years ago.
