Synonym: Avesuchia Benton 1999
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part I. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:1-104
Parent taxon: Eucrocopoda according to M. D. Ezcurra 2016
See also Bakker 1986, Bakker and Galton 1974, Benton 1985, Benton 1990, Carroll 1988, Cope 1870, Gardiner 1982, Gauthier et al. 1989, Haubold 1974, Haughton and Brink 1954, Jaekel 1911, Kuhn 1966, Long and Murry 1995, Lydekker 1888, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004, Nesbitt 2011, Nesbitt et al. 2014, O'Sullivan and Martill 2018, Olshevsky 1992, Olson 1947, Olson 1966, Parrish 1993, Parsch 1963, Peng et al. 2001, Roxo 1937, Senter 2004, Sereno 1991, Thies et al. 1997, Thulborn 1975, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Williston 1917
Sister taxa: Asperoris, Dorosuchus, Euparkeria, Polymorphodon, Proterochampsia
Subtaxa: Agrestipus Avemetatarsalia Avipes Caenagnathiformes Longisquamidae Megalosaurus terquemi Neoarchosauria Palaeosauriscus Parrishia Parrishia mccreai Picrodon Pseudosuchia Sikannisuchus Smok Strigosuchus Strigosuchus licinus Thecodontia Theropodomorpha