Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986] see Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
Count: [†g] †163g;3s
   Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
  Count: [†g] †157g;3s
     Averostra Paul 2002
    Count: [†g] †151g;3s
       Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
      Count: [†g] †135g;3s
         Orionides Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012
        Count: [†g] †132g;3s
           Avetheropoda Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]
          Count: [†g] †118g;3s
             Coelurosauria Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]
            Count: [†g] †107g;3s
               †Tyrannosauroidea Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998] see Superfamily Tyrannosauroidea Osborn, 1906
              Count: [†g] †21g
                 †Proceratosauridae Rauhut et al. 2010 see Family Proceratosauridae Rauhut et al., 2010
                Count: [†g] †4g
                   1 Genus †Kileskus Averianov, Krasnolutskii & Ivantsov, 2010
                  Count: -
                   2.1 Genus †Guanlong Xu, Clark, Forster, Norell, Erickson, Eberth, Jia & Zhao, 2006
                  Count: -
                   2.2.1 Genus †Sinotyrannus Ji Q., Ji S. & Zhang L., 2009
                  Count: -
                   2.2.2 Genus †Proceratosaurus Huene, 1926
                  Count: -