Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986] see Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
Period: Late Triassic - Present [237 Mya - present]; Status: extant; Count: [†g] †163g;3s
   Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
  Period: Late Triassic - Present [237 Mya - present]; Status: extant; Count: [†g] †157g;3s
     Averostra Paul 2002
    Period: Early Jurassic - Present [201.3 Mya - present]; Status: extant; Count: [†g] †151g;3s
       Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
      Period: Early Jurassic - Present [201.3 Mya - present]; Status: extant; Count: [†g] †135g;3s
         Orionides Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012
        Status: extant; Count: [†g] †132g;3s
           Avetheropoda Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]
          Period: Middle Jurassic - Present [174.1 Mya - present]; Status: extant; Count: [†g] †118g;3s
             Coelurosauria Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]
            Period: Middle Jurassic - Present [174.1 Mya - present]; Status: extant; Count: [†g] †107g;3s
               Genus †Aorun Choiniere, Clark, Forster, Norell, Eberth, Erickson, Chu & Xu, 2013
              Status: fossil; Count: -