Rachel C. M. Warnock

Phylogenetic inference from an incomplete fossil record

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.

Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses

This study combines morphological and taxonomic data to improve dated phylogenetic analyses of trilobites, resulting in more accurate divergence time estimates and stratigraphically congruent topologies.