Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986] see Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
Count: -
   Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
  Count: [†*] †8f;54g;61s
     Averostra Paul 2002
    Count: [†*] †7f;52g;58s
       Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
      Count: [†*] †7f;48g;54s
         Orionides Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012
        Count: [†*] †7f;45g;50s
           [†Megalosauroidea Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998]] see Superfamily Megalosauroidea Fitzinger, 1843
          Count: -
             1 [†Piatnitzkysauridae Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012] see Family Piatnitzkysauridae Carrano, Benson & Sampson, 2012
            Count: -