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 From the beginning of the Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont, and now at the ICP, the study of the faunas of the Neogene, from about 23 million of years ago up to the present time, has been a fundamental source of research. The reason for this is the extraordinary richness of the sites of our country and specifically, those of the Vallès-Penedès basin, which contains one of the world's widest and richest fossil records of the Neogene.
The extraordinary potential of these sites, for example the Neogene layers in Vallès (Can Llobateres, and therefore predominantly 'Vallesian'), makes of our country one of the most privileged areas of the world to study the evolution of the Neogene faunas. In our country there are also very important Quaternary sites, from 1.8 million years ago until the present, and their study is of great interest.
Within this area, studies are directed at discovering the depth of the vertebrate faunas, particularly the micromammals and macromammals, from different points of view such as the taxonomic, evolutionary as well as other aspects such as paleoecology, biostratigraphy and taphonomy.
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