B, C. Non-tetrapod data comprising
marine bony fishes (Actinistia, Actinopterygii) and some chondrichthyans
with reliable body size estimates in the Early Triassic and the
Anisian (early Middle Triassic). The upper two columns in (B) depict the
pooled data, whereas in (C) the Early Triassic is split into the respective
sub-stages. Based on data taken from the literature for 111 and 107
species for the Early Triassic and the Anisian respectively (see Table S1
in File S1). The boxes represent the 25–75 percent quartiles (bold
horizontal lines indicate the medians) and the width of the tails the
whole spread of data