[branch-based clade] Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986] see Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
   [node-based clade] Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
     [node-based clade] Averostra Paul 2002
       [branch-based clade] Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
         [node-based clade] Orionides Carrano, Benson & Sampson 2012
           [node-based clade] Avetheropoda Paul 1988 [Padian et al. 1999]
             [branch-based clade] Coelurosauria Huene 1914 [Gauthier 1986]
               [branch-based clade] †Tyrannosauroidea Walker 1964 [Sereno 1998] see Superfamily Tyrannosauroidea Osborn, 1906
                 †Bistahieversor Carr & Williamson, 2010