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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2025-07-09
10:38
10 p, 12.4 MB Where were the Caribbean mangroves during the Last Glacial Maximum? A preliminary microtopographical appraisal / Rull, Valentí (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), when global sea levels dropped by ∼132 m, the Caribbean continental shelf was fully exposed, which drastically reduced the flat topographical habitat necessary for mangrove growth. [...]
2025 - 10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109404
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Vol. 323 (September 2025) , art. 109404  
2025-07-07
14:31
39 p, 23.3 MB An arboreal rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Germany, and the importance of the appendicular skeleton for ecomorphology in lepidosaurs / Beccari, Victor (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences) ; Guillaume, Alexandre Renaud Daniel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) ; Jones, Marc E. H. (University College London) ; Villa, Andrea (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Cooper, Natalie (Natural History Museum) ; Regnault, Sophie (Aberystwyth School of Veterinary Science) ; Rauhut, Oliver (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Here, we describe a new species of Jurassic rhynchocephalian from the Solnhofen Archipelago, Sphenodraco scandentis gen. et sp. nov. , and highlight the importance of the postcranial anatomy for ecomorphological studies in the rhynchocephalian clade. [...]
2025 - 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf073
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 204, Issue 3 (July 2025) , art. zlaf073  
2025-07-07
07:35
18 p, 4.9 MB Criteria for inferring seafloor arrival position in teleosauroid carcasses (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) and comparison with other marine vertebrates / Johnson, Michela (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart) ; Mujal, Eudald (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Cooper, Samuel L. A. (Universität Hohenheim) ; Maxwell, Erin (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart)
The Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) Posidonienschiefer Formation of southwestern Germany is a classic konservat lagerstätte, yielding some of the world's best-preserved fossils of marine vertebrates, including ichthyosaurs, thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs, plesiosaurs and fishes. [...]
2025 - 10.1017/S0016756825100058
Geological Magazine, Vol. 162 (July 2025) , art. e19  
2025-07-07
07:18
16 p, 9.2 MB Insights into neanderthal bird hunting practices during MIS5-3 : Taphonomical analysis of avian remains from Valdegoba cave (Burgos, Spain) / Alonso Caño, Goizane (Universidad de Burgos) ; Díez Fernández-Lomana, Juan Carlos (Universidad de Burgos) ; Sánchez Marco, Antonio (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Small-prey exploitation has been considered an important component of socio-economic development of past human groups. Consequently, several studies have set the focus on taphonomical analysis of small animals such as birds or leporids. [...]
2025 - 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105266
Journal of archaeological science: reports, Vol. 66 (October 2025) , art. 105266  
2025-07-03
08:12
27 p, 3.9 MB A small vertebrate (Urodela, Anura, Squamata, Rodentia) assemblage from Fada Nana Cave (Quaternary, northern Italy) / Villa, Andrea (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Luzi, Elisa (Eberhard Karls Universität) ; Delfino, Massimo (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
The Italian Peninsula is commonly interpreted as a Quaternary refuge, with a particularly important role for taxa requiring humid environments. This is testified by a relatively high diversity of amphibians on the peninsula nowadays, and also by the regional fossil record. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s12549-025-00662-5
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, (June 2025)  
2025-06-25
07:17
Darwin's Leptobos / Bellucci, Luca (Università degli Studi di Firenze. Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia) ; Bartolini-Lucenti, Saverio (Università degli Studi di Firenze. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra) ; Masini, Federico ; Rook, Lorenzo (Università di Firenze. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra) ; Sorbelli, Leonardo (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Cioppi, Elisabetta
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the second edition of Darwin's 'The Descent of Man', published in 1874, we would like to pay tribute to the great work of Charles Darwin himself, Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major and Ludwig Rütimeyer. [...]
2025 - 10.1080/08912963.2025.2513880
Historical biology, (June 2025)  
2025-06-12
08:26
76 p, 16.3 MB Research trajectory, works, and legacy of Salvador Moyà-Solà as a vertebrate paleobiologist / Alba, David M. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Salvador Moyà-Solà's trajectory as a vertebrate paleontologist is reviewed in the occasion of his upcoming retirement in 2025, after 50 years of career. A professional biography is followed by a quantitative analysis of his research outputs and a reflection about his views and accomplishments. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s10914-025-09760-9
Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Vol. 32, Issue 2 (June 2025) , art. 24  
2025-06-10
12:15
8 p, 7.8 MB New insects from the Permian of Catalonia (Spain) predate the early diversification of Triassic clades adapted to arid environments (Grylloblattodea, Probnidae, Dictyoptera) / Garrouste, Romain (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité) ; Fortuny, Josep (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Mujal, Eudald (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Bolet, Arnau (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Steyer, J.-Sébastien (Centre de Recherches en Paléontologie de Paris)
Probnis sauvanyaensis sp. nov. , the first representative of the 'grylloblattodean' family Probnidae from the Iberian Peninsula, is described from the middle to ?upper Permian outcrop of Sauvanyà in the Catalan Pyrenees. [...]
2025 - 10.3897/fr.28.e153912
Fossil Record, Vol. 28, issue 1 (2025) , p. 179-186  
2025-06-10
10:38
43 p, 6.8 MB Petrosal and Inner Ear of the Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus (Harris, 1808) (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Dasyuromorphia) / Wible, John R. (Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Section of Mammals) ; Bertrand, Ornella C. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
The petrosal and inner ear are described for the thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus (Harris, 1808), based on µCT datasets. Comparisons are made with a sample of six extant marsupials, also from µCT datasets: the didelphid Monodelphis sp. [...]
2025 - 10.2992/007.091.0105
Annals of Carnegie Museum, Vol. 91, no. 1 (May 2025) , p. 93-134  
2025-06-05
10:42
20 p, 10.7 MB Early Pliocene barb (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Barbinae) from the Camp dels Ninots site (Spain) / Prikryl, Tomás (Czech Academy of Sciences) ; Blain, Hugues-Alexandre (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social) ; Oms, Oriol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geologia) ; Rodríguez-Salgado, Pablo (Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences) ; Moreno Ribas, Elena (Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social) ; Agustí, Jordi 1954- (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Campeny Vall-Llosera, G (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) ; Gómez de Soler, Bruno (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
The Pliocene site of Camp dels Ninots (Caldes de Malavella, NE Spain) is considered a Konservat-Lagerstätte due to the remarkable preservation of its macro and microvertebrate record, along with floral remains such as leaf imprints and seeds. [...]
2025 - 10.54103/2039-4942/26982
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol. 131, Issue 2 (July 2025) , p. 261-280