Xavier Delclòs Martínez

Xavier Delclòs Martínez

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-2233-5480
Scopus Author ID: 2544819500
Researcher ID: D-4363-2014
Knowledge area: Paleontologia

Membre del Comité de direcció de l'Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio)

Research group: Geologia Sedimentària

Teaching Innovation Groups:

  • Grup d'Innovació de Geoquímica i Roques Ígnies, Metamòrfiques i Sedimentàries
  • GI-DINTO - Grup d’Innovació de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l’Oceà

Contact Information
Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics
Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Martí i Franquès s/n
934021381
xdelclos(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Paleontology
Historical and Regional Geology
Paleontological Heritage
Treball Fi de Grau (Geologia)

Academic Training

Llicenciat / Licenciado en Geologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 06/1986 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Llicenciatura amb Grau / Licenciatura con Grado . Universitat de Barcelona . 27/11/1987 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctor en Cièncias Geològiques (Paleontologia) / Ciencias Geológicas (Paleontología) . Universitat de Barcelona . 11/12/1991 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Synchrotron X-ray imaging technique (propagation phase contrast microtomography) applied to the investigation of arthropods in amber
Taphonomy (preservational processes affecting fossil insects)
Lower Cretaceous Amber of Western Europe. Taphonomy, Paleoecology and Systematics
Amber in Archaeology

Projects

Evento Cretácico de Resina: Un bioevento global de producción en masa de resina en los albores de los ecosistemas terrestres modernos . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.CGL2017-84419-C2-1-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Xavier Delclos Martinez
Can Anthropocene resins (copal) inform us about loss and change of biodiversity? . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.90 946 . VolkswagenStiftung . PI: Mónica Solorzano Kraemer
Geologia Sedimentària . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR824 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Anna Trave Herrero
El ámbar de Iberia. Un excepcional registro de los bosques cretácicos en los albores de los ecosistemas terrestres modernos . 2015 - 2017 . Ref.CGL2014-52163-C2-1-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Xavier Delclos Martinez
Are fossil communities preserved in amber a real image of ancient ecosystems, and can inform us about loss of biodiversity? The Malagasy copal . 2015 - 2016 . Ref.GEFNE 127-14 . National Geographic Society . PI: Mónica Solorzano Kraemer

Journal Publications

Sánchez-García, A.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X.; Engel, M.S. (2018). Mating and aggregative behaviors among basal hexapods in the Early Cretaceous. PLoS One, 13(2), p. e0191669 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Solórzano Kraemer, M.M.; Delclòs, X.; Clapham, M.E.; Arillo, A.; Peris, D.; Jäger, P.; Stebner, F.; Peñalver, E. (2018). Arthropods in modern resins reveal if amber accurately recorded forest arthropod communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 115(26), pp. 6739 - 6744 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0027-8424
Dal Corso, J.; Schnidt, A.R.; Seyfullah, L.J.; Preto, N.; Ragazzi, E.; Jenkyns, H.C.; Delclòs, X.; Néraudeau, D.; Roghi, G. (2017). Evaluating the use of amber in palaeoatmospheric reconstructions: The carbon-isotope variability of modern and Cretaceous conifer resins. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 199, pp. 351 - 369 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0016-7037
Penalver, Enrique; Arillo, Antonio; Delclos, Xavier; Peris, David; Grimaldi, David A.; Anderson, Scott R.; Nascimbene, Paul C.; Perez-de la Fuente, Ricardo (2017). Ticks parasitised feathered dinosaurs as revealed by Cretaceous amber assemblages. Nature Communications, 8 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-1723
Peris, D.; Pérez de la Fuente, R.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X.; Barrón, E.; Labandeira, C.C. (2017). False Blister Beetles and the Expansion of Gymnosperm-Insect Pollination Modes before Angiosperm Dominance. Current Biology, 27(6), pp. 897 - 904 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0960-9822
Sanchez-Garcia, Alba; Delclos, Xavier; Engel, Michael S.; Bird, Graham J.; Perrichot, Vincent; Penalver, Enrique (2017). Marsupial brood care in Cretaceous tanaidaceans. Scientific Reports, 7 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322
Delclòs, X.; Peñalver, E.; Arillo, A.; Engel, M.S.; Nel, A.; Azar, D.; Ross, A (2016). New mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) in Cretaceous ambers from Lebanon, Spain, and Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 60, pp. 91 - 108 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0195-6671
Peñalver, E.; Arillo, A.; Pérez-De la Fuente, R.; Riccio, M.L.; Delclòs, X.; Barrón, E.; Grimaldi, D.A. (2015). Long-Proboscid Flies as Pollinators of Cretaceous Gymnosperms. Current Biology, pp. 1 - 7 + supplement . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.062 . ISSN: 0960-9822
Peñalver, E.; Labandeira, C.; Barrón, E.; Delclòs, X.; Nel, P.; Nel, A.; Tafforeau, P.; Soriano, C. (2012). Thrips pollination of Mesozoic Gymnosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 109(22), pp. 8623 - 8628 . http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1120499109 . ISSN: 0027-8424
Pérez-de la Fuente, R.; Delclòs, X.; Peñalver, E.; Speranza, M.; Wierzchosc,J.; Ascaso, C.; Engel, M. (2012). Early evolution and ecology of camouflage in insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 109(52), pp. 21414 - 21419 . www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1213775110 . ISSN: 0027-8424

Others Publications

Aulinas, M.; Cabrera, L.; Alías, G.; Becerra, M.; Casadellà, J.; Clotet, R.; Delclòs, X.; Fernández-Turiel, J.L.; Geyer, A.; Tarragó, M.; Travé, A. (2016). BCN Rocks: Aprendiendo geología urbana a través de una aplicación App interactiva . In Geo-Temas. IX Congreso Geológico de España . Volume. 16 . Number. 1 . (pp. 717 - 720) . Instituto Geológico y Minero de España - Sociedad Geologica de España . ISBN: 1576-5172 .
Marmi, J.; Martín-Closas, C.; Delclòs, X.; Poza, B. (2011). Fauna and Flora in the age of dinosaurs . In Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia . (pp. 199 - 223) . Indiana University Press . ISBN: 978-0-253-35622-2 .
Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X. (2010). Spanish Amber . In Biodiversity of fossils in amber of the major world deposits . (pp. 236 - 270) . Siri Scientific Press . ISBN: 978-0-9558636-4-6 .
Peñalver, E.; Grimaldi, D.; Delclòs, X. (2008). Early spider web . In Yearbook of Science & Technology 2008 . (pp. 103 - 105) . McGraw-Hill/Interamericana . ISBN: 978-0-07-154834-2 .

More Information: Grup de Recerca: AMBERIA (http://www.igme.es/amberia/)