Kellner et al. (2022) recovered
Maehary as the earliest diverging member of Pterosauromorpha. The results of their
phylogenetic analysis are shown in the
cladogram below, illustrating its position within the Archosauria: Later that year, Foffa et al. discussed the phylogenetic affinities of
Maehary, explaining that it could not be confidently regarded as a pterosauromorph without additional fossil material to clarify its anatomy. While their maximum parsimony analyses found it to be the
basalmost pterosauromorph (similar to Kellner et al. in 2022), using unconstrained Bayesian inference analyses moved it to a
polytomy with
Lewisuchus and
Silesauridae as the sister taxon of the Dinosauria. As such, they cautioned that the position of
Maehary should be regarded as uncertain. A 2024 analysis focused on
lagerpetids, a clade of early pterosauromorphs, also recovered
Maehary as a gracilisuchid. Later in 2024, Rodrigo T. Müller described the well-preserved remains of a new gracilisuchid,
Parvosuchus aurelioi. When included in a phylogenetic dataset, it was found in the clade of
Gracilisuchus +
Maehary. Since the inclusion of an unequivocal gracilisuchid did not affect the relationships of
Maehary, he suggested that this was the appropriate classification for the taxon. The archosaurian results of Müller et al. (2023) are displayed in the cladogram below: |label2=
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