Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) 🇪🇸

The Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) is the heir of a long tradition in fossil vertebrate research in Catalonia, which was established and later consolidated by the notorious paleontologist Miquel Crusafont-Pairó from Sabadell. The research performed at the ICP clearly follows a paleobiological approach. The research team performs all the various steps of paleontological research, beginning with fieldwork (excavations and samplings), continuing with the study and analysis of fossil remains, and ending with the publication and dissemination of the results. In these regards, the basic task of description and taxonomic identification of the remains is still an essential aspect of the work. Research in hominoid evolution and phylogeny based on fossils. Provision of primate and other vertebrate enamel samples from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Spain) and interpretation of the molecular phylogenetic results in the light of information from the fossil record.