Due to its mosaic of primitive and derived characters within Tetanurae, "Asfaltovenator"'s inclusion in the phylogenetic analysis disrupted current views of tetanuran phylogeny, with the analysis recovering "Asfaltovenator" as a basal allosauroid, above the Piatnitzkysauridae, and traditional Megalosauroidea as a paraphyletic grade leading to Allosauroidea.