''Oceanotitan'' (meaning "ocean giant") is a genus of

titanosauriform Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs. Macronarians are named after the large diameter of the nasal opening of their skull, known as the external naris, which exceeded the size of the orbit, the skull opening where the eye is located (hence ...

sauropod known from the Upper Jurassic Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Formation of

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

. It contains one species, ''Oceanotitan dantasi''. The

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of sever ...

consists of the

scapula The scapula (plural scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder blade, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone). Like their connected bones, the scapulae are paired, with each scapula on eith ...

, almost all of the pelvis, a complete leg and pes, and nine caudals.

References

Macronarians Late Jurassic dinosaurs of Europe Jurassic Portugal Fossils of Portugal Fossil taxa described in 2019 {{sauropodomorph-stub