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
   Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
  Period: Late Triassic - Present [237 Mya - present]; Status: extant
     Averostra Paul 2002
    Period: Early Jurassic - Present [201.3 Mya - present]; Status: extant
       Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
      Period: Early Jurassic - Present [201.3 Mya - present]; Status: extant
         Orionides Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012
        Status: extant
           Avetheropoda Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]
          Period: Middle Jurassic - Present [174.1 Mya - present]; Status: extant
             Coelurosauria Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]
            Period: Middle Jurassic - Present [174.1 Mya - present]; Status: extant
               †Tyrannosauroidea Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998] see Superfamily Tyrannosauroidea Osborn, 1906
              Period: Middle Jurassic - Late Cretaceous [174.1 - 66 Mya]; Status: fossil
                 Genus †Bistahieversor Carr & Williamson, 2010
                Status: fossil