Talk:Stegosauridae

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Confusing phylogenies
Firstly, the phylogeny that corresponds to the taxonomy of Holtz listed above should go first, for logical flow. Secondly, the two phylogentic trees presented are not necessarily contrary since they have different taxa, so terms like "however" need context because there are similarities as well. Thirdly the Holtz cladogram implies that Stegosaurinae is a sister group to Hypsirophus, Stegosaurus, Hesperosaurus & Wuerhosaurus, rather than a clade containing them (ditto for Dacentrurinae). Lastly, not having the reviewed the references, is the Carpenter version the same as what Carpenter published? The citation on Lexovisaurus suggests it may have been thrown in by a Wiki editor, which could be original research and potentially misleading, since often the inclusion of taxa changes the resulting phylogeny. I suggest a review and an updating of the phylogenies, with accurately labeled branches. --Animalparty-- (talk) 03:25, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Stegosauria
There is similar material in Stegosauria and Stegosaurus which are more current. Several points here are referable to higher or lower taxa. Taxonomically, there are few differences between Stegosauridae and Stegosauria (a couple of genera?). --Animalparty-- (talk) 03:57, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * We generally merge in the case of monotypic taxa, which isn't the case here. It has been years since I looked at these pages. I'd not agree with a merge at this point, though agree there is alot of overlap - each article can more focus on the taxa immediately above/below it. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:40, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I've removed my merge proposal for the time being since there has been some recent improvement to this article.--Animalparty-- (talk) 21:04, 11 December 2013 (UTC)