Petrustitan

Petrustitan is a eutitanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. The type and only species is P. hungaricus, originally assigned to the genus Magyarosaurus.

History of discovery

In 1932, Friedrich von Huene erected the genus Magyarosaurus and assigned three species based on sauropod specimens recovered from the Sânpetru Formation: M. dacus, M. hungaricus and M. transsylvanicus. However, subsequent analyses considered only M. dacus as a valid species of Magyarosaurus, with "M." transsylvanicus representing a chimera and partially a junior synonym of M. dacus, and with "M." hungaricus representing a distinct genus.
In 2025, Díez Díaz and colleagues reassigned "M." hungaricus to a new genus Petrustitan. The generic name is derived from Ancient Greek words πέτρα, referring to the origin of the holotype, and τιτάν, which is often used when naming titanosaurian sauropods. Both the paralectotype and lectotype of P. hungaricus are catalogued under the same specimen number, NHMUK R.3853. Some material originally referred to this taxon were also given a separate genus name, Uriash.