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.

This study examines how stratigraphic incompleteness affects the recovery of evolutionary modes from fossil time series, finding that prolonged gaps, not stratigraphic position, most strongly influence trait evolution.