Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands

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Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree (2014, background): “Our results largely contrast with those found for snakes (Boback & Guyer, 2003) and resemble the patterns found for lizards (Meiri, 2007; Meiri et al., 2011).”
Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara (2016, background): “…small terrestrial vertebrates: their mean and median sizes (18.7 and 14.8 g, respectively; Table 2) Global Ecology and Biogeography, © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 7 are much smaller than those of birds (33 and 47 g, n = 7551) and mammals (261 and 112 g, respectively, n = 4213; Meiri et al., 2011).”
The biomass distribution on Earth (2018, methodology): “This relation was used to extrapolate the total number of individuals for ≈75% of the total number of bird species, by using breeding range sizes data (176) as a surrogate for study area, and data on body mass (177).”