Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986] see Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
Count: [†g] †163g;3s
   Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
  Count: [†g] †157g;3s
     Averostra Paul 2002
    Count: [†g] †151g;3s
       †Ceratosauria Marsh 1895 [Rowe & Gauthier 1990]
      Count: [†g] †16g
         1.1 Genus †Elaphrosaurus Janensch, 1920
        Count: -
         1.2 Genus †Limusaurus Xu, Clark, Mo, Choiniere, Forster, Erickson, Hone, Sullivan, Eberth, Nesbitt, Zhao, Hernández-Rivera, Jia, Han & Guo, 2009
        Count: -
         2 †Neoceratosauria Novas 1991 [Holtz 1994]
        Count: [†g] †14g