Paleontologists from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu de la Conca Dellà (MCD), Albert Prieto-Márquez and Albert Sellés, have described a new dinosaur species named Calvarius rapidus based from a foot bone found in Pallars Jussà (Lleida, Catalonia). It is one of the last dinosaurs that existed before their extinction worldwide. The research has recently been published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Els paleontòlegs de l’Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) i del Museu de la Conca Dellà (MCD), Albert Prieto-Márquez i Albert Sellés, han descrit una nova espècie de dinosaure anomenat Calvarius rapidus a partir d’un os del peu trobat al Pallars Jussà (Lleida, Catalunya). És un dels darrers dinosaures que va existir abans de la seva extinció a tot el planeta. La recerca ha estat publicada recentment a Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
A team of paleontologists led by the Director of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), David M. Alba, has reported in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a 16-million-year-old pangolin femur from the site of Can Cerdà in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula). Pangolins currently live in Asia and Africa, but in the Miocene they were recorded in Europe. The specimen represents the first record of fossil pangolins in the Iberian Peninsula and has been assigned to the extinct genus Necromanis, which retains several primitive features compared to extant genera.