Emilia Jarochowska

This study investigates how stratigraphic gaps affect phylogenetic inference using a simulation framework and finds that total-evidence analysis is robust to gap distribution but dominated by morphological character data.

Simulated tropical carbonate platforms and temperate ramps under identical sea-level forcing yield different fossil records: platform tops push apparent extinctions into transgressive tracts, while ramp unconformity bias fades gradually offshore.

StratPal is an R package that allows combining stratigraphic, ecological, evolutionary, and taphonomic modules into modeling pipelines to analyze fossil data and account for stratigraphic biases.