Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP)

El ICP es un centro de investigación público de la institución CERCA (Centros de Investigación de Cataluña) establecido como una fundación sin ánimo de lucro dotada de fondos públicos y que tiene como patrones la Generalitat de Catalunya y la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). La misión del ICP consiste en llevar a cabo investigación en paleontología de vertebrados y humana al más alto nivel internacional, así como promover la conservación y difusión del patrimonio paleontológico de Cataluña. Este portal web contiene la producción científica del ICP, organizada en las siguientes categorías:

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2025-03-18
11:17
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae) : Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution / Raventos-Izard, Georgina (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Monclús-Gonzalo, Oriol (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Moyà Solà, Salvador (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia) ; Alba, David M. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Arias-Martorell, Julia (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Pliobates cataloniae is a small-bodied crouzeliid pliopithecoid from the Miocene (∼11. 6 Ma) of Abocador de Can Mata (ACM; Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula). It exhibits a mosaic of primitive (stem catarrhine) and derived (modern hominoid-like) postcranial features. [...]
2025 - 10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103663
Journal of Human Evolution, Vol. 202 (May 2025) , art. 103663  
2025-03-14
08:33
22 p, 2.4 MB Fossils on the Market : An Attempt to Characterise the Auction World (2010-2022) / Ragni, Cinzia (Università di Torino. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra) ; Bacchia, Giorgia (Zoic Srl) ; Ferretti, Marco Peter (Università di Camerino. Sezione di Geologia) ; Delfino, Massimo (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
The collection of fossils supports a thriving market that is largely unknown to the academic community. The fossil market is characterised by fairs, online shops, physical stores and auction sales that attract hundreds of thousands of people each year. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s12371-025-01079-4
Geoheritage, Vol. 17, Issue 2 (June 2025) , art. 39  
2025-03-11
08:24
24 p, 4.4 MB But how does it smell? An investigation of olfactory bulb size among living and fossil primates and other euarchontoglirans / Lang, Madlen M (University of Toronto Scarborough) ; Silcox, Mary Teresa (University of Toronto Scarborough) ; Fostowicz-Frelik, Łucja (Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Paleobiology) ; Lis, Adam (University of Warsaw) ; López-Torres, Sergi (National Museums of Kenya. Earth Science Department) ; San Martin-Flores, Gabriela (University of Toronto Scarborough) ; Bertrand, Ornella C. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Primates are often considered to have a poor sense of smell. While all studies identify small olfactory bulbs (OB; the region of the brain responsible for processing scent) among haplorhines, whether or not strepsirrhines also possess small OBs is less clear, as is the evolutionary backdrop from which these patterns emerged. [...]
2025 - 10.1002/ar.25651
The anatomical record (Hoboken), (March 2025)  
2025-03-05
11:51
2 p, 566.1 KB Quan els tapirs vagarejaven pels boscos del Vallès / Alba, David M. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Un article recent descriu noves restes fòssils dels tapirs que van viure al Vallès durant el Miocè Superior (fa 11-9 milions d'anys), incloent-hi un crani juvenil recuperat gràcies al control paleontològic d'unes obres de construcció a Sabadell. [...]
Un artículo reciente describe nuevos restos fósiles de los tapires que vivieron en el Vallès durante el Mioceno Superior (hace 11-9 millones de años), incluyendo un cráneo juvenil recuperado gracias al control paleontológico de unas obras de construcción en Sabadell. [...]
A recent article describes new fossil remains of the tapirs that inhabited the Vallès during the Late Miocene (11-9 million years ago), including a juvenile cranium recovered thanks to the paleontological surveillance of construction works in Sabadell. [...]

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2025-02-25
12:10
A new species of swift (Aves, Apodidae) from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, South Africa / Pavia, Marco (Università degli Studi di Torino. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra) ; Louchart, Antoine (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Université de Lyon 1) ; Govender, Romala (University of Cape Town. Biological Sciences) ; Delfino, Massimo (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
We describe a new species of Apus (Aves, Apodidae) from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg (Cape Province, South Africa). A single swift humerus was reported from Langebaanweg's extraordinary rich fossil bird association, but it was never analyzed in detail. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s12542-024-00711-y
Paläontologische Zeitschrift, (January 2025)  
2025-02-25
07:37
11 p, 3.0 MB New data on the inner skull cavities of Diplocynodon tormis (Crocodylia: Diplocynodontinae) from the Duero Basin (Iberian Peninsula, Spain) / Serrano-Martínez, Alejandro (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Hernández Luján, Àngel (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; García-Pérez, Ángel (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Fortuny, Josep (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Inner skull cavities provide key characters to elucidate taxonomic, phylogenetic, and palaeobiological inferences in reptiles. Herein, an integral description of the extinct alligatoroid Diplocynodon tormis is presented based on its holotype, recovered from the Middle Eocene site of "Teso de la Flecha" (Salamanca, Spain). [...]
2025 - 10.3897/fr.28.133743
Fossil Record, Vol. 28, Issue 1 (February 2025) , p. 67-77  
2025-02-24
09:22
58 p, 10.2 MB Dental remains of 'Parachleuastochoerus' valentini (Suidae: Tetraconodontinae) from the early Late Miocene of Sant Quirze (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) : Taxonomic and phylogenetic implications / Alba, David M. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Siarabi, Souzanna (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Arranz, Sara G. (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; McKenzie, Sharrah (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
The distinctiveness and genus allocation of 'Parachleuastochoerus' valentini (Suidae: Tetraconodontinae), from the Miocene of Europe, has been controversial, being alternatively considered a junior synonym of Conohyus simorrensis. [...]
2025 - 10.1186/s13358-024-00344-3
Swiss journal of palaeontology, Vol. 144 (February 2025) , art. 9  
2025-02-24
08:04
Gliding between continents : a review of the North American record of the giant flying squirrel Miopetaurista (Rodentia, Sciuridae) with the description of new material from the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee) / Grau-Camats, Montserrat (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Casanovas i Vilar, Isaac (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Crowe, Cheyenne J. (East Tennessee State University. Center of Excellence in Paleontology. Department of Geosciences) ; Samuels, Joshua X. (East Tennessee State University. Center of Excellence in Paleontology. Department of Geosciences)
Flying squirrels (Rodentia, Sciuridae, Sciurinae, Pteromyini) have a long and complex history in North America. First recorded during the Late Eocene, they vanished during the early Late Miocene (at about 9 Ma) only to re-appear in the Pliocene and Pleistocene. [...]
2025 - 10.1007/s10914-025-09751-w
Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Vol. 32, Issue 1 (March 2025) , art. 8  
2025-02-20
14:15
13 p, 3.3 MB Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade / Urciuoli, Alessandro (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ; Martínez, Ignacio (Universidad de Alcalá) ; Quam, Rolf (Universidad de Alcalá) ; Arsuaga, Juan Luis (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ; Keeling, Brian A. (Universidad de Alcalá) ; Diez-Valero, Julia (Universidad de Alcalá) ; Conde-Valverde, Mercedes (Universidad de Alcalá)
Revealing the evolutionary processes which resulted in the derived morphologies that characterize the Neanderthal clade has been an important task for paleoanthropologists. One critical method to quantify evolutionary changes in the morphology of hominin populations is through evaluating morphological phenotypic diversity (i. [...]
2025 - 10.1038/s41467-025-56155-8
Nature communications, Vol. 16 (February 2025) , art. 972  
2025-02-13
11:44
24 p, 2.2 MB Sex differences in oncogenic mutational processes / Li, Constance H. (University of California. Department of Human Genetics) ; Prokopec, Stephenie D. (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research) ; Sun, Ren X. (University of Toronto) ; Yousif, Fouad (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research) ; Schmitz, Nathaniel (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research) ; Boutros, Paul C. (University of California)
Sex differences have been observed in multiple facets of cancer epidemiology, treatment and biology, and in most cancers outside the sex organs. Efforts to link these clinical differences to specific molecular features have focused on somatic mutations within the coding regions of the genome. [...]
2020 - 10.1038/s41467-020-17359-2
Nature communications, Vol. 11 (August 2020) , art. 4330