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).
Gheerbrant Emmanuel, Filippo Andrea & Schmitt Arnaud, juillet 2016 — Convergence of Afrotherian and Laurasiatherian Ungulate-Like Mammals: First Morphological Evidence from the Paleocene of Morocco. PLoS Onevol. 11, 7: e0157556, p. 1-35
Schmitt Arnaud & Gheerbrant Emmanuel, 2016 — The ear region of earliest known elephant relatives: new light on the ancestral morphotype of proboscideans and afrotherians. Journal of Anatomyvol. 228, n° 1, p. 137-152
Kocsis Laszlo, Gheerbrant Emmanuel, Mouflih Mustapha, Cappetta Henri, Ulianov Alex, Chiaradia Massimo & Bardet,
Nathalie, 2016 — Gradual changes in upwelled seawater conditions (redox, pH) from the late Cretaceous through early Paleogene at the northwest coast of Africa: Negative Ce anomaly trend recorded in fossil bio-apatite. Chemical Geologyvol. 421, , p. 44-54
Solé Floréal, Smith Thierry, De Bast Eric, Codrea Vlad & Gheerbrant Emmanuel, 2016 — New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontologyvol. 36, 2:e1082480, p. 1-19