Uriash is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Romania. The holotype of this genus was originally referred to Magyarosaurus hungaricus, which is now classified in a separate genus, Petrustitan.[1]
In 1914, the Hungarian geologist Ottokár Kadić in the Pârâul Budurone ravine near Vălioara, discovered a skeleton of a sauropod which was markedly larger than previously found sauropod remains in the area. In 1916, the discovery, consisting of limb bones and eight vertebrae, was reported in the scientific literature.[2] By 12 January 1927 two vertebrae had been sent to Friedrich von Huene at the University of Tübingen. Von Huene described these in 1932, preliminary referring them to a ?Magyarosaurus hungaricus, presently Petrustitan.[3]
In 2021 the site was rediscovered[4] and only then it was realised that all the bones had belonged to a single animal, "Individual C". It was concluded that it represented a taxon new to science.
In 2025, the type species Uriash kadici was named and described by Verónica Díez Díaz, Philip David Mannion, Zoltán Csiki-Sava and Paul Upchurch. The generic name Uriash references the Romanian word uriaș, the giant in Romanian Folklore, while the specific name kadici references the Hungarian geologist Ottokár Kadić (1876–1957).[1]
Individual C is the holotype. It was found in the lower middle member of the Densuş-Ciula Formation probably dating from the early Maastrichtian. It contains the tail vertebrae SZTFH Ob.3090 B, D, G, H (four vertebrae have been lost), the right humerus SZTFH Ob.3104, the thighbones SZTFH Ob.3103 and the left first metatarsal SZTFH Ob.3095.[1]
Uriash has been estimated to be long and weigh up to . It was in 2025 the second largest known European Upper Cretaceous titanosaur, after Abditosaurus.
