The discovery of "Qianzhousaurus" led to a new branch of the tyrannosaur family being named, consisting of the long-snouted "Q. sinensis" and the two known species of "Alioramus". This clade, named the Alioramini, had an uncertain placement relative to other members of the tyrannosaur branch in the initial analysis that discovered it. The primary phylogenetic analysis found Alioramini to be closer to "Tyrannosaurus" than to "Albertosaurus", and therefore a member of the group Tyrannosaurinae. However, a second analysis in the same paper found it to be located outside of the clade including Albertosaurinae and Tyrannosaurinae, and therefore the sister group of Tyrannosauridae. Below is the first analysis found by the authors: