atmospheric oxygen levels may have had a profound influence on metabolism and growth of ectothermic amniotes in their evolutionary history (e.g., acting as a constraint on growth rates in some Triassic taxa). Attempts to infer growth rates of extinct taxa from their fossil bone microstructure should consider contemporary oxygen levels
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