StratPal
Stratigraphic Paleobiology Modeling Pipelines
The fossil record is a joint expression of ecological, taphonomic, evolutionary, and stratigraphic processes (Holland and Patzkowsky, 2012, ISBN:978-0226649382). This package allowing to simulate biological processes in the time domain (e.g., trait evolution, fossil abundance, phylogenetic trees), and examine how their expression in the rock record (stratigraphic domain) is influenced based on age-depth models, ecological niche models, and taphonomic effects. Functions simulating common processes used in modeling trait evolution, biostratigraphy or event type data such as first/last occurrences are provided and can be used standalone or as part of a pipeline. The package comes with example data sets and tutorials in several vignettes, which can be used as a template to set up one's own simulation.
- Version0.7.1
- R versionR (≥ 4.2)
- LicenseApache License (≥ 2)
- Needs compilation?No
- Languageen-US
- StratPal citation info
- Last release12/06/2025
Documentation
- VignetteIntegration with the FossilSim and paleotree packages
- VignetteIntroduction to the StratPal package
- VignetteDocumentation of defined S3 classes
- VignetteAdvanced Functionality and Writing Extensions
- VignetteStratigraphic Paleobiology for Event Data
- VignetteUsage with the paleoTS and evoTS package
- VignetteStratigraphic Paleobiology for Phenotypic Evolution
- VignetteExample Stratigraphic Architecture
- MaterialREADME
- MaterialNEWS
- In ViewsPaleontology
Team
Niklas Hohmann
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