加拿大邮政当局,喜爱出版本国古生物类型的邮票。在1990年,以“原始生命年代”为标题发行了四枚一套的邮票,分别描绘了魁北克西部前寒武纪的叠层石、纽芬兰岛寒武纪的三叶虫(Paradoxides david is),寒武纪布基司岩软躯体三叶虫,Opabinia regalis,以及安大略湖南部志留系的板足鲎Eurypterus remipes。第二年又以“原始脊椎动物年代”为题,发行了一套邮票,描绘了魁北克泥盆系的鱼Eusthenopteron foordi,魁北克及西北地区一棵巨大的泥盆纪树Ar- Canadian postal authorities prefer to publish their own paleontological stamps. In 1990, four sets of stamps were issued under the title “The Age of Primitive Life,” depicting the Precambrian strata in western Quebec, the Cambrian Cambrian trilobites (Newfoundland) , The Cambrian Burkill rock soft-body trilobite, Opabinia regalis, and Eurypterus remipes from Silurian in southern Ontario. The following year, with the title “The Age of Primitive Vertebrates,” issued a set of stamps depicting the Eusthenopteron foordi of the Devonian of Québec, a giant Devonian tree in Quebec and northwestern Ar-