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
       †Ceratosauria Marsh 1895 [Rowe & Gauthier 1990]
         1.1 Genus †Elaphrosaurus Janensch, 1920
         1.2 Genus †Limusaurus Xu, Clark, Mo, Choiniere, Forster, Erickson, Hone, Sullivan, Eberth, Nesbitt, Zhao, Hernández-Rivera, Jia, Han & Guo, 2009
         2 †Neoceratosauria Novas 1991 [Holtz 1994]