†unranked clade Alvarezsauroidea Choiniere et al. 2010
Full reference: J. N. Choiniere, X. Xu, J. M. Clark, C. A. Forster, Y. Guo and F. Han. 2010. A basal alvarezsauroid theropod from the early Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China. Science 327(5965):571-574
Parent taxon: Alvarezsauria according to K. Kubo et al. 2023
See also Agnolin et al. 2012, Averianov and Lopatin 2021, Choiniere et al. 2010 and Xu et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Aorun, Arriagadoolithidae, Shishugounykus
Subtaxa: Alvarezsauridae Bannykus Bonapartenykus Haplocheirus Nemegtonykus Patagonykinae Patagonykus Qiupanykus Tugulusaurus Xiyunykus