A monophyletic Scansoriopterygidae was recovered by Godefroit "et al." (2013); the authors found scansoriopterygids to be basalmost members of Paraves and the sister group to the clade containing Avialae and Deinonychosauria. Agnolín and Novas (2013) recovered scansoriopterygids as non-paravian maniraptorans and the sister group to Oviraptorosauria. Brusatte "et al." (2014) also found "Epidexipteryx" to be a basal oviraptorosaur along with "Pedopenna". The Bayesian analysis of Cau (2018) placed scansoriopterygids in Oviraptorosauria again, while the parsimony analysis placed them in the base of Avialae, and included "Xiaotingia" in Scansoriopterygidae as sister to the rest of the group. Pittman "et al". (2020) again found scansoriopterygids to be basal oviraptorosaurs.