In contrast, trilobite size was strikingly correlated with fluctuations in marine redox (i.e., marine oxygen levels), especially during the well-known anoxic events of this interval.

Derek E. G. Briggs is a palaeontologist at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and curator at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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