Highlights include the presentation of Daniel DeMiguel as a keynote speaker. In his speech "Fossil Evidence And Tracing Key Innovations - An Example From The Evolution Of Ruminant Mammals" he talked about how key innovations (changes in organisms that allow them to exploit new resources) are important for fauna diversification, as it can be observed in the radiation of ruminants during the Miocene. In particular, DeMiguel analyzed how the development of new adaptations from the Eocene in the skeleton of this group, such as cranial appendages and a specialized dentition, contributed to its diversification and adaptation to new habitats and types of diets, and to the origin of extant families of ruminants.

List of papers works presented by ICP researchers and collaborators:

• Teleosteans from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Northeastern Spain: Contributions to the European Fossil Fish Record. Álex Blanco.
• Photogrammetry and 3D Models: A Way to Mitigate the Problems of Private Fossil Collections. Álex Blanco, Sergio Llácer, Blanca Moncunill-Solé.
• Preliminary Report of the Ichthyofauna from Pontils (Middle Eocene, Northeastern Spain). Álex Blanco, Judit Marigó, Raef Minwer-Barakat.
• Preliminary Report on the Squamates from the Middle Eocene locality of Pontils (Spain). Arnau Bolet, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Judit Marigó.
• Middle Miocene Mammals from the Czujan’s Sandpit (Mikulov, Czech Republic). Àngel H. Luján et al.
• New Megalosauripus Tracks in the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Novella L. Razzolini et al.
• A Malacophagous New Species of the Genus Plesiodimylus (Dimylidae, Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Lower Miocene of Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin. Marc Furió et al.
• Finite Element and Shape Analyses Shed Light into Conodont Functional Morphology. Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno et al.
• New Material of Agerinia smithorum (Primates, Adapiformes) from the Early Eocene Locality Casa Retjo-1 (NE Iberian Peninsula). Joan Femenias-Gual, Judit Marigó, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Salvador Moyà-Solà.
• 3D Computational Biomechanics Meets Amphibians: Ecomorphology and Evolutionary Implications. Josep Fortuny et al.
• Global Distribution of Neogene Hedgehogs (Erinaceomorpha, Mammalia). Marc Furió.
• Ecomorphological Characterization of Southwestern Europe Murines (Rodentia) from the Latest Middle Miocene to the Mio-Pliocene Boundary (MN 7/8 – MN13). Ana R. Gomez Cano et al.
• Morphology of the Mandibular Sutures in Metoposaurus krasiejowensis (Temnospondyli) From the Upper Triassic of Poland. Josep Fortuny et al.
• The Early Miocene Rodent Succession of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia, Spain): Preliminary Results after the 2011-2016 Field Campaigns. Sílvia Jovells-Vaqué, Daniel DeMiguel, Joan Madurell-Malapeira, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar.
• Occurrence of Diplocynodon ratelii (Crocodylia) in the Czech Republic. Àngel H. Luján, Josep Fortuny et al.
• First Occurrence of Testudo kalksburgensis Toula, 1896 in the Czech Republic. Àngel H. Luján et al.
• Paleoherpetofauna from the Early Miocene Locality of Les Cases de la Valenciana (Catalonia, Spain). Àngel H. Luján, Daniel DeMiguel, Joan Madurell-Malapeira, Sílvia Jovells-Vaqué, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar.
• Can the Shape of the Calcaneus Help Us Interpret Locomotion in Extinct Primates?. Judit Marigó et al.
• Taphonomic Study of Somosaguas-North (Madrid Basin, Spain), a Middle Miocene Mammalian Fossil Site Deposited by Debris Flows. Ana R. Gómez Cano et al.
• New Statistical Models for Quantitative Palaeoclimatic Inferences of Spanish Miocene Fossil Sites. Ana R. Gómez Cano et al.
• The Giant Extinct Pikas (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha) of Gargano: Evaluating the Body Mass Shifts in Insular Evolutionary Lineages. Blanca Moncunill-Solé.
• New Primate Remains from a Middle Eocene Karstic Locality in Switzerland. Raef Minwer-Barakat, Judit Marigó et al.
• Bone Histology of Equus from Mosbach Sands (Middle Pleistocene, Germany). Carmen Nacarino-Meneses, Guillem Orlandi-Oliveras, Meike Köhler.
• New Morphometric Insights into the Knee Joint Complex of Epipliopithecus vindobonensis. Marta Pina, Sergio Almécija, Salvador Moyà-Solà.
• Who is Who? Comparative Morphology of the Miocene Eurasian Musk-Deer Micromeryx and Hispanomeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Moschidae). Israel M. Sánchez et al.
• Preliminary Approximation on the Locomotion and Body Mass of Giant Mustelids and Other Musteloids (Ailuridae and Procyonidae) Throughout the Neogene and Quaternary. Juan Abella et al.
• Neutron-Based Computed Microtomography: Pliobates cataloniae and Barberapithecus huerzeleri as a Test-Case Study. Alessandro Urciuoli, Josep Fortuny, Sergio Almécija, Salvador Moyà-Solà, David M. Alba.
• First Record of Latonia gigantea (Anura, Alytidae) From the Iberian Peninsula. Massimo Delfino, Àngel H. Luján, Sergio Almécija, David M. Alba et al.
• Southern Germany: An Early to Middle Miocene Lizard Melting Pot?. Massimo Delfino et al.

This was the fifteenth edition of this meeting that this year has gathered more than 250 specialists from all over the world. The EAVP was founded in 2003 and in its annual meetings researchers present their latest researches in several disciplines of vertebrate paleontology (systematics, biostratigraphy, fossil conservation, etc.). Moreover, the congress is a meeting point to establish international collaborations.

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Additional information:

• EAVP 2017 meeting website
• EAVP website