A study of theropod relationships by Fernando Novas and Sebastian Apesteguia in 2003 showed that Velocisaurus was a close relative of the strange ceratosaur Masiakasaurus.
San Fernando Valley | Fernando Botero | Fernando Alonso | San Fernando | Fernando de Noronha | San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago | Fernando de la Rúa | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Fernando Arrabal | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | Fernando de la Mora | San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca | San Fernando, California | Fernando Po | Fernando Perez | Fernando González | Fernando Saunders | Fernando Hierro | Fernando Flores | Fernando Ferrer | Fernando Amorsolo | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo | San Fernando, Pampanga | Fernando Vicente | Fernando Perez (baseball) | Fernando Ortega | Fernando Meirelles | Fernando Collor de Mello | Fernando | Fernando Valenzuela |
Both genus and species were named and described by Argentine paleontologists Jose Bonaparte and Fernando Novas in 1985, who placed it in the newly created family Abelisauridae.