Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986]
see Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
Averostra Paul 2002
Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
Orionides Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012
Avetheropoda Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]
Coelurosauria Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]
Maniraptoriformes Holtz 1995 [Holtz 1996]
Maniraptora Gauthier 1986
Pennaraptora Foth et al. 2014
Paraves Sereno 1997 [Sereno 1998]
†Dromaeosauridae Ostrom 1969 [Sereno 1998]
see Family Dromaeosauridae Matthew & Brown, 1922
†Eudromaeosauria Longrich & Currie 2009 [Turner et al. 2012]
†Ve1ociraptorinae Barsbold 1978
see Subfamily Ve1ociraptorinae
Genus †Bambiraptor Burnham, Derstler, Currie, Bakker, Zhou & Ostrom, 2000