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
†Therizinosauria Russell 1997 [Russell 1997]
†Therizinosauroidea Russell & Dong 1993 [Zhang et al. 2001]
see Superfamily Therizinosauroidea Maleev, 1954
Genus †Jianchangosaurus Pu, Kobayashi, Lü, Xu, Wu, Chang, Zhang & Jia, 2013