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SUBMITTER: Schachat SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5805952 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schachat Sandra R SR Labandeira Conrad C CC Saltzman Matthew R MR Cramer Bradley D BD Payne Jonathan L JL Boyce C Kevin CK
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20180101 1871
Concurrent gaps in the Late Devonian/Mississippian fossil records of insects and tetrapods (i.e. Romer's Gap) have been attributed to physiological suppression by low atmospheric <i>p</i>O<sub>2</sub> Here, updated stable isotope inputs inform a reconstruction of Phanerozoic oxygen levels that contradicts the low oxygen hypothesis (and contradicts the purported role of oxygen in the evolution of gigantic insects during the late Palaeozoic), but reconciles isotope-based calculations with other pr ...[more]