Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP)

L'ICP és un centre de recerca públic de la institució CERCA (Centres de Recerca de Catalunya) establert com una fundació sense ànim de lucre dotada de fons públics i que té com a patrons la Generalitat de Catalunya i la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). La missió de l'ICP consisteix a fer recerca en paleontologia de vertebrats i humana al més alt nivell internacional, així com promoure la conservació i difusió del patrimoni paleontològic de Catalunya. Aquest portal web conté la producció científica de l'ICP, organitzada en les següents categories:

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2024-09-05
07:13
18 p, 2.8 MB Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography and dispersal during the Middle-Late Triassic / Moreno, Raphael (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart) ; Dunne, Emma M. (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) ; Mujal, Eudald (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Farnsworth, Alexander (University of Bristol) ; Valdes, Paul J. (University of Bristol) ; Schoch, Rainer (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart)
Temnospondyls had a remarkable worldwide distribution throughout the Triassic at a time of periodic arid climates, and were a stable component of Triassic terrestrial ecosystems. Given the postulated ancestral relationship between temnospondyls and modern lissamphibians it is pertinent to recognize that the group may have exhibited some degree of ecological resilience and adaptability. [...]
2024 - 10.1111/pala.12724
Palaeontology, Vol. 67, Issue 5 (September/October 2024) , art. e12724  
2024-09-02
10:06
22 p, 5.1 MB Cenozoic Ampelopsis and Nekemias leaves (Vitaceae, Ampelopsideae) from Eurasia: Paleobiogeographic and paleoclimatic implications / Tosal, Aixa (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà) ; Vicente, Alba (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Denk, Thomas (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
We describe a new species of Ampelopsideae (Vitaceae), Nekemias mucronata sp. nov. , from the Rupelian of Cervera (Spain) and revise another fossil species, Ampelopsis hibschii, originally described from Germany. [...]
2024 - 10.1111/jse.13126
Journal of Systematics and Evolution, (August 2024)  
2024-09-02
08:13
16 p, 2.5 MB Paleobiological implications of chevron pathology in the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Upper Triassic of SW Germany / Schaeffer, Joep (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart) ; Wolff, Ewan (University of New Mexico) ; Witzmann, Florian (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) ; Ferreira, Gabriel S. (University of Tübingen. Department of Geosciences) ; Schoch, Rainer R. (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart) ; Mujal, Eudald (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Paleopathology, the study of diseases and injuries from the fossil record, allows for a unique view into the life of prehistoric animals. Pathologies have nowadays been described in nearly all groups of fossil vertebrates, especially dinosaurs. [...]
2024 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0306819
PloS one, Vol 19, Issue 7 (July 2024) , art. e0306819  
2024-07-31
11:41
10 p, 1.7 MB An updated overview on the extinction of Oreopithecus bambolii / De Miguel Cascan, Daniel (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Rook, Lorenzo (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Oreopithecus bambolii, the large-bodied endemic ape that lived in the Tusco-Sardinian bioprovince during the Late Miocene (ca. 8. 2-6. 7 Ma; Turolian), has been, for more than half a century, the focus of great controversy over its phylogenetic status, postural/locomotor behaviour, and extinction in an insular context. [...]
2024 - 10.4435/BSPI.2024.06
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, Vol. 63 (2024) , p. 183-192  
2024-07-30
05:43
10 p, 2.0 MB The Catalan initiative for the Earth BioGenome Project : contributing local data to global biodiversity genomics / Corominas, Montserrat (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) ; Marques-Bonet, Tomas 1975- (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Arnedo, Miquel A. (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals) ; Bayés, Mònica (Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica) ; Belmonte, Jordina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ; Escrivà, Hector (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Sorbonne Université) ; Fernández, Rosa (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva) ; Gabaldón, Toni (Instituto de Salud Carlos III. CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas) ; Garnatje, Teresa (Institut Botànic de Barcelona) ; Germain, Josep (Institució Catalana d'Història Natural) ; Niell, Manel (Andorra Recerca + Innovació) ; Palero, Ferran (Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva) ; Pons, Joan (Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats. Departament de Biodiversitat Animal i Microbiana) ; Puigdomènech, Pere, 1948- (Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica) ; Arroyo, Vanesa (Andorra Recerca + Innovació) ; Cuevas-Caballé, Cristian (Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat) ; Ferrer Obiol, Joan (Università degli Studi di Milano. Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali) ; Gut, Ivo (Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica) ; Gut, Marta (Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica) ; Hidalgo, Oriane (Instituto de Salud Carlos III. CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas) ; Izquierdo-Arànega, Guillem (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) ; Pérez-Sorribes, Laia (Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC) ; Righi, Emilio (Centre de Regulació Genòmica) ; Riutort, Marta (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) ; Vallès, Joan (Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat) ; Rozas, Julio (Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat) ; Alioto, Tyler (Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica) ; Guigó, Roderic (Centre de Regulació Genòmica) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia
The Catalan Initiative for the Earth BioGenome Project (CBP) is an EBP-affiliated project network aimed at sequencing the genome of the >40 000 eukaryotic species estimated to live in the Catalan-speaking territories (Catalan Linguistic Area, CLA). [...]
2024 - 10.1093/nargab/lqae075
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, Vol. 6, Issue 3 (September 2024) , art. lqae075  
2024-07-26
10:08
15 p, 4.8 MB The disappearance of European dirk-toothed cats / Tura-Poch, Clàudia (Universitat de Girona. Departament d'Història i Història de l'Art) ; Bartolini-Lucenti, Saverio (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Jiangzuo, Qi-Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology) ; Prat‑Vericat, Maria (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Martínez-Navarro, Bienvenido (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social) ; Rook, Lorenzo (University of Florence. Earth Science Department) ; Madurell-Malapeira, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geologia)
Saber-toothed cats dominated the latest Pliocene to early Pleistocene ecosystems in the Old World, potentially competing with early hominins for food resources. However, the Pleistocene fossil records of the medium-sized Megantereon are often fragmented and scarce, leading to contentious debates regarding its evolutionary history. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.palwor.2024.05.003
Palaeoworld, (July 2024)  
2024-07-25
12:09
New quantitative analyses of the Nacholapithecus kerioi proximal ulna confirm morphological affinities with Equatorius and large papionins / Pina, Marta (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Nakatsukasa, Masato (Kyoto University. Laboratory of Physical Anthropology)
Objectives: The elbow of Nacholapithecus has been extensively described qualitatively, however its ulnar morphology has never been the focus of an in-depth quantitative analysis before. Hence, our main aim is quantifying the proximal ulnar morphology in Nacholapithecus and exploring whether it is similar to those of Equatorius and Griphopithecus as previously reported. [...]
2024 - 10.1002/ajpa.25000
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, (July 2024) , art. e25000  
2024-07-23
15:16
The rise and fall of the Iberian cobras (Elapidae, Naja) in the context of their European and global fossil record / Villa, Andrea (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Quadros, Ana B. (Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de São Paulo) ; Delfino, Massimo (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Hernández Luján, Àngel (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Bolet, Arnau (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Robles Gimenez, Josep Maria (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Alba, David M. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Very few remains of elapid snakes are known from the Iberian Peninsula, but these include a probable endemic extinct species of cobra, Naja iberica from the Late Miocene. We here describe isolated cobra vertebrae from several Middle-Late Miocene localities in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia, Spain). [...]
2024 - 10.1002/spp2.1575
Papers in Palaeontology, Vol. 10, issue 4 (July/August 2024) , p. e1575  
2024-07-17
07:02
Paleodietary reconstruction of Equus simplicidens from the Hagerman Horse Quarry (Idaho, USA) highlights high abrasive habits in North American fossil equids during the Pliocene / Cirilli, Omar (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Semprebon, Gina M. (Bay Path University. Department of Biology) ; Bernor, Raymond L. (Howard University. Department of Anatomy)
The evolutionary history of equids represents a paradigmatic case of evolution through time and space when, during the Cenozoic, fossil equids experimented with a variety of forms as well as multiple dietary adaptations. [...]
2024 - 10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112376
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 650, issue 112376 (September 2024)  
2024-07-11
12:59
33 p, 1.2 MB New fossils of the early Miocene stem-cervid Acteocemas (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) from the Iberian Peninsula shed light on the evolutionary origin of deer antler regeneration / Azanza, Beatriz (Universidad de Zaragoza. Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón) ; Pina, Marta (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Quiralte, Victoria (Museo Geominero (IGME)) ; Sánchez, Israel M. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; DeMiguel, Daniel (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Acteocemas, a very poorly documented early Miocene stem-cervid, is one of the first ruminants bearing antler-like appendages, which has provided a ground for discussion on the origin of antlers. We describe a new and very complete appendage from the site of Sant Andreu de la Barca (Spain) together with some other unpublished specimens from the nearby Costablanca attributed to Acteocemas aff. [...]
2022 - 10.1080/08912963.2022.2050720
Historical biology, Vol. 34, Issue 8 (2022) , p. 1520-1533