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]
               †Coeluridae Marsh 1881 [Hendrickx, Hartman & Mateus 2015], incertae sedis see Family Coeluridae Marsh, 1881
                 Genus †Tanycolagreus Carpenter, Miles & Cloward, 2005
                   †Tanycolagreus topwilsoni Carpenter et al., 2005