Talk:Dilophosauridae

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Earliest large theropods

If I am not mistaken, the dilophosaurids were some of the earliest large-sized theropods to evolve. Should that have mention? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dinolover45 (talk • contribs) 18:08, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

The questionable existence of this page.

Should this page really even exist? Some paleontologists recently have placed at least two of the family's members, Cryolophosaurus ellioti and Sinosaurus triassicus into the clade Tetanurae. If this is the case, why should we have a page for a family of dinosaurs that is paraphyletic (that is, they do not share a common ancestor)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Megalosauroid (talk • contribs) 02:34, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

The answer is that it shouldn't exist, it should be merged with Neotheropoda due to Dilophosaurus' recent description being the final nail in the coffin Sauriazoicillus (talk) 05:50, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Sauriazoicillus: Feel free to implement Hemiauchenia (talk) 08:43, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Hemiauchenia: So do I need to do anything to merge articles? Is there any form of thing I need to go through or things I need to sign? Sorry I'm very new to this. Sauriazoicillus (talk) 12:07, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

@Sauriazoicillus: See WP:MERGE for instructions. Hemiauchenia (talk) 12:11, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Merging page

This page should be merged into Neotheropoda and listed as paraphyletic as per the description and phylogenetic results of Dilophosaurus material by Marsh, A.D.; Rowe, T.B.(2020) Sauriazoicillus (talk) 05:46, 30 July 2021 (UTC)