Excavations
The main area of fossils' accumulation was exposed in 2000 throughout works supervised by mgr inż. Janusz Gnyra from Górażdże Cement Co. Primary task of palaeontological excavations in 2001 was an identification of a place most abundant with bones, suitable for a future museum exposition in situ. The works, supervised by Prof. Dzik, were led by assistants: Tomasz Sulej (Institute of Palaeobiology), Mariusz Lubka (Wrocław University) and Dorota Majer (Opole University).
Started in the west part of the site, the works were conducted with help of a group of students (usually about 10 persons at a time, a total of 74 students throughout the entire season). Similarly as in the previous year, one-meter wide and about one-meter deep ditches were dug in the bone-bearing layer. Northern-south orientated trenches perpendicular to the edge of the quarry were led each fourth meter, then connected with an east-west ditch parallel to the edge.
Fossil abundance varied; the more eastwards, the less metoposaur crania. An area 8 m wide and 20 m long was demarcated in a place of the greatest fossil accumulation, bordered with a ditch, and left for a future museum exhibition. Then, the full removal of the bone-bearing layer started outside that area. The works were hindered by heavy rains, so portable cover, enabling work during bad weather, was purchased.
The following months of field works brought about discoveries of various fossils. Among the most spectacular findings were large skulls of capitosaurs, which, in Krasiejów, had been found only in fragments till then. From the scientific point of view the most interesting are single bones of lizard ancestors. Another important discovery is an evidence for presence of dinosaurs in the lower bone-bearing layer. An earlier finding of a sacral vertebra came from a rubble and it was not known if this bone had belonged to the lower or upper level.
June: -Numerous metoposaur skulls and single phytosaur bones were found in the very first ditches. They were left in situ till the demarcation of the exhibition area.
July: - - Cyclotosaur's skull with a mandible, numerous vertebrae, ribs and a few limb bones were uncovered. Shoulder and pelvic girdle bones co-occured with them. It is the first in the world finding of a complete mandible and limb bones of a cyclotosaur, till then known only from other genera of the Capitosauridae. A toothed, 2 cm long jaw bone, probably belonging to a lizard ancestor (Prolacertilia) was found. The area of the museum exhibition was demarcated and bordered with ditches.
August: - The first dinosaur fossils (vertebrae and ischium) on the lower level as well as three small (6-9 mm long) vertebrae probably of a lizard ancestor (Prolacertilia) were found. Furthemore, the first on the lower bed fragment of an aetosaur skull (left frontale) and the first in Krasiejów shoulder girdle bones of a metoposaur preserved in their original position, were uncovered. Extraction of previously found fossils from the ditches around the exhibition area and the ditches' deepening was completed. A portable anti-rain cover was purchased.
September: - .A part of a metoposaur's tail with vertebrae in original position was found. A heavy accumulation of metoposaur bones was extracted. In the lower part of the bone-bearing stratum a sub-layer abundant in plant remains, among them a few fragments of twigs and leaves suitable for species identification, was spotted. Well preserved head of a ganoid fish was found in a concretion. Preparations of the exhibition site were completed.