Family Bathysauridae Fowler 1944 Name in prevailing recent practice

Macristiidae Regan 1911b:204 [ref. 32612] (family) Macristium

Bathysauridae Fowler 1944a:489 [ref. 1448] (family) Bathysaurus [name only, but used as valid by Marshall 1961:364 [ref. 32613], by Bigelow 1963:98 and by Mead 1966:103 [ref. 32841] Article 13.2.1; family-group name used as valid by: Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Johnson 1974 [ref. 7135], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Paxton et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], McAllister 1990 [ref. 14674], Nelson 1994 [ref. 26204], Eschmeyer 1998 [ref. 23416], Russell 1999 [ref. 24747], Sato & Nakabo 2002 [ref. 25953], Russell 2003 [ref. 27004], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486]]