Miquel Crusafont

Who was Miquel Crusafont?

Miquel Crusafont i Pairó was a Catalan paleontologist, specializing in mammal bones.

He obtained a degree in Pharmacy in the University of Barcelona in 1933, and a further degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Madrid in 1950.

He was unanimously elected Professor of Paleontology at the University of Oviedo as first in his field, and then accepted the post of Professor of Anthropology in the Societatis Iesu in Barcelona.

Among his most important works are Los Vertebrados del Mioceno Continental de la cuenca del Vallés-Penedés, El Mioceno Continental del Vallès y sus yacimientos de vertebrados; El Burdigaliense continental de la cuenca del Vallès-Penedès, Estudio Masterométricos en la evolución de los Fisípedos; La Evolución.

In 1969 he founded the Institut Provincial de Paleontologia, known since 1983 as the Institut de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont.

The prehistoric mammal Crusafontia is named after him.