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Tim De Backer

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10 Results

2026

A spike in malformed chitinozoans announces the Ireviken Ocean Anoxic event in the lower Wenlock☆

Iris VancoppenollePoul EmsboPatrick I. McLaughlinTim De BackerCarolina Klock Campos FerreiraMikael CalnerBradley D. CramerAxel MunneckeThijs Vandenbroucke

A1 Journal Article in GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Biomonitoring Paleozoic ocean anoxia : how chitinozoan malformations and geochemical anomalies chronicle brine-driven global change

Tim De BackerThijs VandenbrouckePoul Emsbo

Chitinozoans from the upper Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Armenia : biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications

Vitalina LoktevaGayane KirakosyanSonia Clara CaminaTim De BackerArayik GrigoryanTaniel DanelianVahram Serobyan

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

Metal induced chitinozoan malformations link the Mid-Ludfordian OAE to the venting of metalliferous hydrothermal basin brines into the Silurian Ocean

Tim De BackerPoul EmsboPatrick I. MclaughlinIris VancoppenolleCarolina Klock Campos FerreiraAxel MunneckeThijs Vandenbroucke

A1 Journal Article in GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

2025

A diverse chitinozoan record from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region (Kentucky, USA)

Cristiana de Jesus Paulo EstevesPatrick McLaughlinJules VellemanTim De BackerJulie De WeirdtMerrell MillerThijs Vandenbroucke

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

2024

Chitinozoan biostratigraphy through the Aeronian-Telychian boundary interval on Anticosti Island, Canada

Carolina Klock Campos FerreiraAndré DesrochersPatrick I. MclaughlinPoul EmsboTim De BackerFien JonckheereCristiana de Jesus Paulo EstevesThijs Vandenbroucke

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF MICROPALAEONTOLOGY

Chitinozoan response to the 'Kellwasser events' : population dynamics and morphological deformities across the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction

Tim De BackerJames (Jed) DayPoul EmsboPatrick MclaughlinThijs Vandenbroucke

A1 Journal Article in PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY

2022

A persistent non-uniformitarian paleomagnetic field in the Devonian?

Annique van der BoonAndrew J. BigginDaniele ThallnerMark W. HounslowRichard BonoJerzy NawrockiKrystian WojcikMariusz PaszkowskiPeter KoenigshofTim De Backer et al.

A1 Journal Article in EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

2021

Implications of an early land plant spore assemblage for the late Silurian age of the Si Ka Formation, northern Vietnam

Julien LegrandToshihiro YamadaToshifumi KomatsuMark WilliamsTom HarveyTim De BackerThijs VandenbrouckePhong Duc Nguyen Phong Duc NguyenHung Dinh Doan Hung Dinh DoanHung Ba Nguyen Hung Ba Nguyen

A1 Journal Article in ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE

2019

Chitinozoans and scolecodonts from the Silurian and Devonian of Japan

Thijs VandenbrouckeOlle HintsMark WilliamsSimon WallisJules VellemanToshiyuki KuriharaGengo TanakaToshifumi KomatsuPeep MannikDavid J Siveter et al.

A1 Journal Article in ISLAND ARC