period: Neogene – Miocene (23.03-5.333 million years ago) excavation site: Machów mine pit, Tarnobrzeg (Subcarpathia) A dozen or so million years ago, in Miocene there was a warm, shallow sea at the Carpathian foothill. As a result of evaporation of sea water from oversaturated solutions, different chemical...
period: ca. 4 bn years ago (in Poland since 1935) fall location: Łowicz area (Masovia) Łowicz meteorite fell in the form of a stony rain in the South of Łowicz on March 12, 1935 at 0:52. The bang of defragmentation of the meteorite was heard in Warsaw,...
period: Pleistocene (115-11.7 thousand years ago) excavation site: Zegrze (Masovia) During works at site of Zegrzyński Reservoir in the 60s of the 20th century in gravel sediments of the Narew riverbed, bones of giant Pleistocene mammals were discovered – the skulls of woolly rhinoceros and steppe bison...
period: Pleistocene (115-11.7 thousand years ago) excavation site: Kopińska, Warsaw (Masovia) The bones of the mammoth were discovered on the depth of 5 m in 1971 during ground works on the route of projected Jerozolimskie alleys. The mammoth died in its prime years when it was ca....
Salix acutissima Goepp. willow leaves and Ulmus carpinoides Goepp. elm leaves imprints period: Upper Miocene (7.25–5.33 million years ago) excavation site: Sośnica (Lower Silesia) Outstandingly rich plant matter was excavated in the outcrop of old brickyard in Sośnica. The imprints of leaves (rarely twigs, flowers, fruits and seeds)...
period: difficult to define excavation site: Wojcieszów, Kaczawskie Mountains (Lower Silesia) The specimen presents forms of dripstone created as a result of karstic processes in Wojcieszów limestones. Such dripstones in caves are created by long-lasting dripping of water solution with calcium carbonate which forms in a characteristic...
Trachycarpus raphifolia (Sternnb.) Takht. = Sabal haeringiana (Ett.) palm leaf imprint period: Lower Miocene (23.03-20.44 million years ago) excavation site: Osieczów (Lower Silesia) Palms evolved in the upper Cretaceous period (100-70 million years ago). The presented palm leaf imprint is younger – it is ca. 20 million years...
period: Tertiary (65-1.8 million years ago) excavation site: Szklary mine pit, Ząbkowice Śląskie (Lower Silesia) Chrysoprase is a mineral coloured green by nickel compounds, a common chalcedony variation with a semicrystalline structure. A seam of chrysoprase in a closed Szklary nickle pit is known as the most...
period: Middle Jurassic – Bathonian (166.1-168.3 million years ago) excavation site: Gnaszyn near Częstochowa (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland) Ammonites are extinct organisms which belong to the most evolved group of mollusca – cephalopods. Ammonitida, to which Procerites belong, emerged at the turn of the Triassic and Jurassic periods. They...
period: Lower Jurassic (199.6-175.6 million years ago) excavation site: Gromadzice near Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski There are many tracks left by dinosaurs in Poland – the extinct vertebrae living on Earth between 210 and 70 million years ago. The first tracks of dinosaurs in Poland were found in 1959...