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).
Huyghe Damien, Merle Didier, Lartaud Franck, Cheype Emilie & Emmanuel Laurent, octobre 2012 — Middle Lutetian climate in the Paris Basin: implications for a marine hotspot of paleobiodiversity. Faciesvol. 58, n° 4, p. 587-604
Gardin Silvia, Krystyn Leopold, Richoz Sylvain, Bartolini Annachiara & Galbrun Bruno, octobre 2012 — Where and when the earliest coccolithophores?. Lethaiavol. 45, n° 4, p. 507-523
Nath Cheryl D., Boura Anais, De Franceschi Dario & Pelissier Raphael, juin 2012 — Assessing the utility of direct and indirect methods for estimating tropical tree age in the Western Ghats, India. Trees-Structure and Functionvol. 26, n° 3, p. 1017-1029
Saint Martin Simona, Saint Martin Jean-Paul, Girard Vincent, Grosheny Danièle & Néraudeau Didier, juin 2012 — Filamentous micro-organisms in Upper Cretaceous amber (Martigues, France). Cretaceous Researchvol. 35, , p. 217-229
Nishimura Takeshi D., Takai Masanaru, Senut Brigitte, Taru Hajime, Maschenko Evgeny N. & Prieur Abel, avril 2012 — Reassessment of Dolichopithecus (Kanagawapithecus) leptopostorbitalis, a colobine monkey from the Late Pliocene of Japan. Journal of Human Evolutionvol. 62, n° 4, p. 548-561
Garassino Alessandro, Pasini Giovanni, De Angeli Antonio, Charbonnier Sylvain, Famiani Federico, Baldanza Angela & Bizzarri Roberto, mars 2012 — The decapod community from the Early Pliocene (Zanclean) of “La Serra” quarry (San Miniato, Pisa, Toscana, central Italy): sedimentology, systematics, and palaeoenvironmental implications. Annales de Pal{\'e}ontologievol. 98, n° 1, p. 1-61
Thomas Romain & De Franceschi Dario, février 2012 — First evidence of fossil Cryosophileae (Arecaceae) outside the Americas (early Oligocene and late Miocene of France): Anatomy, palaeobiogeography and evolutionary implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynologyvol. 171, , p. 27-39
Guex Jean, Schoene Blair, Bartolini Annachiara, Spangenberg Jorge E., Schaltegger Urs, O’Dogherty Luis, Taylor David, Bucher Hugo & Atudorei Viorel, 2012 — Geochronological constraints on post-extinction recovery of the ammonoids and carbon cycle perturbations during the Early Jurassic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecologyvol. 346-347, , p. 1-11
Audo Denis & Charbonnier Sylvain, 2012 — New nisto of slipper lobster (Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the Hadjoula Lagerstätte (Late Cretaceous, Lebanon). Journal of Crustacean Biologyvol. 32, n° 4, p. 583-590
Charbonnier Sylvain & Garassino Alessandro, 2012 — The marine arthropods from the Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones (Late Jurassic, Germany) in the collections of the Muséum national dHistoire naturelle, Paris. Geodiversitasvol. 34, n° 4, p. 857-871
Charbonnier Sylvain, Garassino Alessandro & Pasini Giovanni, 2012 — Review of the crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Miocene of the Mahakamby Island (Mahajanga, NW Madagascar) collected during the Waterlots Mission (1922). Geodiversitasvol. 34, n° 4, p. 873-881
Charbonnier Sylvain, Garassino Alessandro, Pacaud Jean-Michel & Schweigert Günter, 2012 — Rediscovery of the Type Material of Eryon Cuvieri Desmarest, 1817 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Eryonidae) and Nomenclatural Consequences. Geodiversitasvol. 34, n° 4, p. 849-855
Charbonnier Sylvain, Pérès Dimitri & Letenneur Charlène, 2012 — Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from the Oxfordian of eastern France (Terrain à Chailles Formation, Haute-Saône). Geodiversitasvol. 34, n° 3, p. 531-568
Guernet Claude, Huyghe Damien, Lartaud Franck, Merle Didier, Emmanuel Laurent, Gély Jean-Pierre, Michel Florent & Pilet Ophélie, 2012 — Les ostracodes de la falunière de Grignon (Lutétien du Bassin de Paris) : implications stratigraphiques. Geodiversitasvol. 34, n° 4, p. 909-959
Bartolini Annachiara, Guex Jean, Spangenberg Jorge E., Schoene Blair, Taylor David G., Schaltegger Urs & Atudorei Viorel, 2012 — Disentangling the Hettangian carbon isotope record: Implications for the aftermath of the end‐Triassic mass extinction. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystemsvol. 13, n° 1, p. 1-11
Petit Gilles & Charbonnier Sylvain, 2012 — Fossil sponge gemmules, epibionts of Carpopenaeus garassinoi n. sp (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Sahel Alma Lagerstatte (Late Cretaceous, Lebanon). Geodiversitasvol. 34, n° 2, p. 359-372
Kershaw Stephen, Crasquin Sylvie, Li Yingnan, Collin Pierre-Yves, Forel Marie-Béatrice, Mu Xinan, Baud Aymon, Wang Ying, Xie Shucheng, Maurer Florian & Guo Li, janvier 2012 — Microbialites and global environmental change across the Permian-Triassic boundary: a synthesis. Geobiologyvol. 10, n° 1, p. 25-47