First, they suggested that herbivorous clades showed a trend towards increased body size.
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Rates and modes of body size evolution in early carnivores and herbivores: a case study from Captorhinidae.
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It is necessary to conclude with an acknowledgement that, while this study does cast doubt on the general hypothesis of Reisz & Frobisch (2014) that the earliest herbivores showed a pronounced trend towards larger body size, one should be careful about expanding the inferences presented here to other clades.