Oceanotitan

Field photograph to come

DV-1075Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Fm., Portugal

Oceanotitan

DV-1075

Lived
152 to 149 million years ago, Late Jurassic
Diet
Herbivore
Group
Sauropods
Found in
Portugal
Named by
Mocho et al. 2019

Field notes

About Oceanotitan

Oceanotitan was a plant-eating sauropod that lived in the Late Jurassic, 152 to 149 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Oceanotitan, from Portugal. Its fossils come from the Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Formation. It was named by Mocho et al. in 2019.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

150 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Titanosauriformes.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, and F. Ortega. 2019. A new macronarian sauropod from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology