Metazoan diversification produces new species whose phenotypes diverge at various rates. This diversification in space and time, influenced by environmental factors, including habitat distribution (itself determined partly by paleogeographic changes; see figure below), produces faunas that are more or less distinct and sometimes endemic, and whose composition reflects both the evolutionary and paleobiogeographic history. The team « Metazoan phylogeny and diversification » works on these phenomena through four projects. It includes several vertebrate paleontologists, as well as a few working on mollusks or arthropods.
Institutional affiliations
CNRS-MNHN-Sorbonne Université
Le CR2P est un laboratoire entièrement dédié à la paléontologie.Il a pour objectif d'élucider la structure des relations de parenté et l'histoire du vivant au travers du registre fossile et des environnements du passé. Il est sous la triple tutelle du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), de Sorbonne Université et du CNRS (INEE).