Geology of Poland/ Volume III. Atlas of guide and characteristic fossils. Part 2a. Mesozoic, Triassic

For several decades a team of specialists from the field of paleontology has been acting in the Geological Institute. The team has gathered rich material of fossil fauna and flora from drillings and outcrops in several parts of the country (Polish Lowlands, Silesian-Cracow Upland, the Gory Swietokrzyskie Mts and the Carpathians).

Analythical results of studies of the above team of the Geological Institute, especially those obtained in the course of paleontological and biostratigraphic expertises, have as far as possible been published, contributing to the Polish and world biostratigraphic literature. This made it necessary for the Geological Institute, the oldest and biggest centre of geological sciences in the country, to undertake works aimed at gathering museum collections and synthetize most important biostratigraphic information dispersed in various sources.

Works on monograph Atlas skamienialosci przewodnich i chardktery sty cznych, the third volume of Budowa Geologiczna Polski and the first position of that type compiled in our country, were initiated in 1971. The team of researchers of the Geological Institute and the invited specialists from other research centres in the country which took part in that project has been led by Doc. Dr. Lidia Ma-linowska (Head of Laboratory of Paleozoology of Department of Stratigraphy, Tectonics and Paleogeography, Geological Institute) as the General Editor. Thanks to the deep concern of the General Editor, section editors, authors and editorial teams of the Department of Publications, Maps and Text (Geological Institute) and the Publishing House Wydawnictwa Geologiczne, it became possible to publish first of Mesozoic parts of Polish version of the monograph as early as 1979.

Presenting Mesozoic part of the monograph to the foreign Reader, the Geological Institute dedicates this publication unique in Polish geological literature to our paleontologists such as J. B. Pusch-Korenski, J. Siemiradzki, L. Zej-szner, M. Raciborski and others who laid foundations for major achievements of Polish biostratigraphy