David Penney

David Penney, UK arachnologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Penney, D. 2003. A new deinopoid spider from Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Acta palaeontologica polonica 48(4): 569–574. abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page.

Selden, P.A. & Penney, D. (2009) A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada. Contributions to Natural History 12: 1269–1282.

Dunlop, J.A. & Penney, D. 2011. Order Araneae Clerck, 1757. Pp 149–153 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Reference page.
Jepson, J.E., Penney, D. & Green, D.I. 2011. First fossil Phatnoma (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae: Cantacaderinae), in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 2975: 59–63. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2975.1.5 ResearchGate Reference page.

Heads, S.W., Penney, D. & Green, D.I. 2012. A new fossil cricket of the genus Proanaxipha in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Orthoptera, Gryllidae, Pentacentrinae) . ZooKeys 229: 111–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.229.3678 Reference page.
Penney, D., Dunlop, J.A. & Marusik, Y.M. 2012. Summary statistics for fossil spider species taxonomy. ZooKeys 192: 1–13. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.192.3093 . Reference page.

Penney, D., Evenhuis, N.L. & Green, D.I. 2013. A new species of Proceroplatus Edwards (Diptera: Keroplatidae) in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 3686(5): 593–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3686.5.8 Reference page.
Dunlop, J.A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2013. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In N. Platnick (ed.), The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History. Reference page.

Mitov, P.G., Dunlop, J.A. & Penney, D. 2014 (Online) 2015? (Print): A new species of Lacinius in amber (Arachnida: Opiliones). Fossil Record 18(1): 37–42. DOI: 10.5194/fr-18-37-2015 Reference page.