10 , 22 , 58 , 59 Furthermore, although there is an overall trend crown-wards toward faster growth in avemetatarsalians and slower growth in crocodylomorphs, these growth strategies were not evolutionary innovations but instead represent end-members of variability in growth traits that were already ancestrally present among Triassic archosauromorphs.
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Synchrotron imaging reveals diversity in archosauromorph growth strategies by the end of the early Triassic.
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