Reply to: Revisiting the identification of Syllipsimopodi bideni and timing of the decabrachian-octobrachian divergence

replying to C. Klug et al. Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42842-x (2023)

Bayesian tip-dating recovered the Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) coleoid Syllipsimopodi bideni Whalen and Landman 2022¹ (Fig. 1) as the earliest diverging vampyropod¹. The analysis thus suggests that vampyropods (=total group), octobrachians (=superorder), and octopodiforms (=crown group) diverged from decabrachians (=superorder) and decapodiforms (=crown group) in the Mississippian¹; this agrees with several molecular divergence time estimates^2,3,4,5, but suggests an older…