Named By: | Meyer in 1839 |
Time Period: | Middle Triassic, Anisian-Ladinian |
Location: | Europe |
Size: | Around 3 meters long |
Diet: | Piscivore |
Fossil(s): | At least two individuals |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Pistosauroidea | |
Pistosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic sauropterygian reptile closely related to plesiosaurs. Fossils have been found in France and Germany, and date to the Middle Triassic. It contains a single species, Pistosaurus longaevus