URIASH
a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania.
Pronunciation: yoo-ree-ash
Meaning: Romanian giant
Author/s: Díez Díaz
et al. (
2025)
Synonyms: See below
First Discovery: Hunedoara, Romania
Discovery Chart Position: #1163
Uriash kadici
(Kadic' Romanian Giant)Etymology
Uriash is derived from the Romanian "Urias" (referring to the giant humanoid characters in Romanian Folklore, but also, generally, to something or someone colossal), alluding to its large body size.
The
species epithet,
kadici, honours Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist Ottokár Kadić (1876–1957) of the Royal Geological Survey of Hungary who discovered several continental vertebrate-bearing fossil localities in the
north-western Hateg Basin, including the type locality of
Uriash, between 1909 and 1915.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 71-66 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: 12 meters
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: 8 tons
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Kadic O (1916) "Jelentés az 1915, évben végzett ásatásaimról: II A valiorai dinosaurusok gyujtése".
A Magyar Királyi Földtani Intézet Évi Jelentések, 1915-röl: 573–576.
• Huene F von (1932) "Die fossile Reptilordnung Saurischia: Ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte".
Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, 1(4): 1-361.
• Le Loeuff J (2005) "Romanian late cretaceous dinosaurs: Big dwarfs or small giants?".
Historical Biology, 17(1–4): 15–17. DOI: 10.1080/08912960500376210.
• Csiki Z and Grigorescu D (2006) "The revision of “Magyarosaurus” hungaricus Huene (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Hateg Basin".
Extended Abstracts, 8th Mining, Metallurgy and Geology Conference, EMT, 65, 70.
• Botfalvai G, Csiki-Sava Z, Kocsis L, Albert G, Magyar J, Bodor ER, Tabara D, Ulyanov A and Makadi L (2021) "‘X’ marks the spot! Sedimentological, geochemical and palaeontological investigations of Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) vertebrate fossil localities from the Valioara valley (Densus-Ciula Formation, Hateg Basin, Romania)".
Cretaceous Research, 123: 104781. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104781.
• Díez Díaz V, Mannion PD, Csiki-Sava Z and Upchurch P (20 February 2025) "Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Hateg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography".
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 23(1). DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2024.2441516.
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