Petrustitan
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Petrustitan
DV-1285 · type species Petrustitan hungaricus
- Lived
- 72 to 66 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods
- Found in
- Romania
- Named by
- Díez Díaz et al. 2025
Field notes
About Petrustitan
Petrustitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 66 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Petrustitan, from Romania. Its fossils come from the Sînpetru Formation. It was named by Díez Díaz et al. in 2025.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Close relatives
Other members of Eutitanosauria.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: V. Díez Díaz, P. D. Mannion, and Z. Csiki-Sava, P. Upchurch. 2025. Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1):2441516