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CR2P: The Center for Research on Palaeontology - Paris

The laboratory is structured in three teams that reflect our three major research areas.

PALPAL - Palaeobiodiversities, Palaeoenvironments

The PALPAL team has brought together palaeontologists from different specialties whose expertise...

PhDs defended at CR2P since 2003

PDM - Metazoan phylogeny and diversification

FOSFO - Forms, Structures and Fonctions

The team's projects cover a broad field of investigation both temporally (almost all of the...

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The CR2P research support staff, essential to the daily operation of our laboratory, is divided into several workshops: administration,...

The CR2P is intimately involved in the collections of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) and of Sorbonne University.

The Administration of CR2P comprises three people who work in close collaboration with the administrative services of the  CNRS,...

Our workshop is specialised in formalization, computer modelling and data analysis. It covers a wide range of expertise from...

Our workshop undertakes extraction and preparation of fossils and casts. Palaeontologists can only study fossils once they are extracted from their matrix...

PhD includes PhD in progress and supported PhD

Research work

The lithopreparators prepared thin sections of rocks.

The CR2P, a unit comprising nearly a hundred people, spread between five buildings means that the team leaders must respect the...

Our unit uses a vast quantity of images because all our publications, theses and conference presentations are illustrated.