Petrustitan is a eutitanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) 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" (the type species), "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 ("pétra", "stone, rock"), referring to the origin of the holotype (rocky outcrops of the type locality, Sânpetru), and τιτάν ("tītā́n", "giant"), which is often used when naming titanosaurian sauropods. Both the paralectotype (left tibia) and lectotype (left fibula) 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".