Changes in version 0.7.1 (2025-12-06)                  

  - fix documentation and data

                 Changes in version 0.7.0 (2025-11-24)                  

  - added vignette with platform figures

  - updated example data to CarboKitten.jl

  - strat_filter for simple stratigraphic filtering in the time domain

  - construction of char_mat for character matrices associated with
    positional data (time / height)

  - taphonomic effects of char_mat via apply_taphonomy.char_mat that is
    associative with event type/fossils

                 Changes in version 0.6.0 (2025-08-27)                  

  - Add wrappers last_occ and range_offset to determine position/timing
    of last occurrences & biostratigraphic precision as a function of
    taphonomy, ecology, abundance, and stratigraphy.

                 Changes in version 0.5.0 (2025-05-21)                  

  - Expand integration with the FossilSim package

                 Changes in version 0.4.0 (2025-03-27)                  

  - Convenience functions discrete_niche and discrete_gradient for
    defining niches from discrete categories

  - Integration with the FossilSim package, specifically transformation
    of fossils objects

                 Changes in version 0.3.1 (2025-02-20)                  

  - Update citation info and vignettes after publication of manuscript

                 Changes in version 0.3.0 (2024-11-21)                  

  - bug fix for apply_niche and apply_taphonomy for pre_paleoTS format

  - plotting for pre_paleoTS fixed

                 Changes in version 0.2.0 (2024-10-04)                  

  - introduce S3 class pre_paleoTS with simulation procedures for trait
    evolution on specimen level

  - add reduce_to_paleoTS to reduce pre_paleoTS to paleoTS format for
    linking withpaleoTS package

  - add niche modeling and taphonomic effects for pre_paleoTS via
    dispatch of apply_niche and apply_taphonomy

  - add more tests

  - add input checks

                 Changes in version 0.1.1 (2024-08-23)                  

  - add citation and DOI

                        Changes in version 0.1.0                        

  - add simulation of point processes (constant and variable rate
    Poisson point processes)

  - rejections sampling as basis for point processes

  - thinning functionality for point processes

  - simulations of basic modes of evolution (stasis, random walk, OU)

  - basic niche modeling

  - add example data