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.

Version: 0.7.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.2)
Imports: admtools (≥ 0.6.0), paleoTS
Suggests: ape, FossilSim, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-12-06
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.StratPal
Author: Niklas Hohmann ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Niklas Hohmann <N.H.Hohmann at uu.nl>
BugReports: https://github.com/MindTheGap-ERC/StratPal/issues
License: Apache License (≥ 2)
URL: https://mindthegap-erc.github.io/StratPal/ , https://github.com/MindTheGap-ERC/StratPal
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: StratPal citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: Paleontology
CRAN checks: StratPal results

Documentation:

Reference manual: StratPal.html , StratPal.pdf
Vignettes: Integration with the FossilSim and paleotree packages (source, R code)
Introduction to the StratPal package (source, R code)
Documentation of defined S3 classes (source, R code)
Advanced Functionality and Writing Extensions (source, R code)
Stratigraphic Paleobiology for Event Data (source, R code)
Usage with the paleoTS and evoTS package (source, R code)
Stratigraphic Paleobiology for Phenotypic Evolution (source, R code)
Example Stratigraphic Architecture (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: StratPal_0.7.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: StratPal_0.7.1.zip, r-release: StratPal_0.7.1.zip, r-oldrel: StratPal_0.7.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): StratPal_0.7.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): StratPal_0.7.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): StratPal_0.7.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): StratPal_0.7.1.tgz
Old sources: StratPal archive

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