Nesbitt "et al." utilized two phylogenetic datasets to analyze the affinities of "Teleocrater": one published by Nesbitt himself in 2011, and another published by Martín D. Ezcurra in 2016. In addition to "Teleocrater", the similarly problematic "Yonghesuchus", "Dongusuchus", "Spondylosoma", and "Scleromochlus" were also added to the dataset in order to test their relationships. Analyses based on both datasets consistently recovered a monophyletic group containing "Teleocrater", "Yarasuchus", "Dongusuchus", and "Spondylosoma", with "Spondylosoma" forming the sister group to a polytomy containing the other three. This group is differentiated from other archosauriforms by fifteen shared characters, one of them an unambiguous synapomorphy (the overhang of the cervical neural spines). Nesbitt "et al." named this group the Aphanosauria, defined as the most inclusive clade containing "Teleocrater rhadinus" and "Yarasuchus deccanensis" but not "Passer domesticus" or "Crocodylus niloticus". The results of the analyses are reproduced below, based primarily on the Ezcurra dataset but incorporating the avemetatarsalian topology of the Nesbitt dataset.