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Strongly simplified phylogeny of the Cephalopoda using data published by Kröger et al.62 and Pohle et al.44 for the early cephalopods with occurrences of megafauna-size cephalopods (red asterisk). Note that all examined groups are monophyletic except the group ‘Cephalopods with orthoconic conchs’.