Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Gauthier 1986] see Clade Theropoda Marsh 1881 [Naish, Cau, Holtz Jr., Fabbri & Gauthier 2020]
Period: Late Triassic - Present [237 Mya - present]; Status: extant
   Neotheropoda Bakker 1986 [Sereno 1998]
  Period: Late Triassic - Present [237 Mya - present]; Status: extant
     Averostra Paul 2002
    Period: Early Jurassic - Present [201.3 Mya - present]; Status: extant
       Tetanurae Gauthier 1986
      Period: Early Jurassic - Present [201.3 Mya - present]; Status: extant
         Genus †Cryolophosaurus Hammer & Hickerson, 1994
        Status: fossil