| 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