David Peris

Complete address:

Departament de Ciències Agràries i del Medi Natural,. 
Universitat Jaume I (UJI)
Campus del Riu Sec  
Av. Sos Baynat s/n
Castelló de la Plana
e-mail: daperce@gmail.com


Grup de recerca: Geologia Sedimentària. Paleobiologia de medis continentals

Main research interest:

  • Coleòpters fòssils en ambre, principalment del Cretàcic Inferior (Albià) d’Espanya i França.
  • Taxonomia i evolució de l’ordre Coleoptera.
  • Paleoecologia y paleoetologia del propis espècimens i dels boscos i ambientes on vivien.

Main publications:

  • Peris, D. (2016). Early Cretaceous origin of pollen-feeding beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Oedemeridae). Cladistics. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12168.
  • Peris, D.; Háva, J. (2016). New species from Late Cretaceous New Jersey amber and stasis in subfamily Attageninae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Journal of Paleontology. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2016.51.
  • Peris, D.; Ruzzier, E.; Perrichot, V.; Delclòs, X. (2016). Evolutionary and paleobiological implications of Coleoptera (Insecta) from Tethyan-influenced Cretaceous ambers. Geoscience Frontiers. 7, 695–706.
  • Jałoszyński, P.; Peris, D. (2016). Cretaceous amber inclusions of Spain and Myanmar demonstrate early diversification and wide dispersal of Cephenniitae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous Research. 57, 190–198.
  • Peris, D.; Solórzano Kraemer, M.M.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X. (2015). New ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) from Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers and their paleobiogeographical implications.Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 15, 527–542.
  • Peris, D.; Delclòs, X. (2015). Fossil Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) from Laurasian Cretaceous amber. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 15, 333–342.
  • Peris, D.; Philips, T.K.; Delclòs, X. (2015). Ptinid beetles from the Cretaceous gymnosperm-dominated forests. Cretaceous Research. 52, 440–452.
  • Peris, D.; Kolibáč, J.; Delclòs, X. (2014). Cretamerus vulloi gen. et sp. nov., an exceptionally well-preserved bark-gnawing beetle (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) from the Cretaceous amber. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12, 879–891.
  • Peris, D.; Davis, R.S.; Engel, M.S.; Delclòs, X. (2014). An evolutionary history embedded in amber: reflection of the Mesozoic shift in weevil-dominated (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) faunas. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171, 534–553.
  • Peris, D.; Chatzimanolis, S.; Delclòs, X. (2014). Diversity of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Early Cretaceous Spanish amber. Cretaceous Research. 48, 85–95.
  • Peris, D.; Ruzzier, E. (2013). A new tribe, new genus, and new species of Mordellidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from the Early Cretaceous amber of Spain. Cretaceous Research. 45, 1–6.