What is Oxalaia?
{{good}} {{italictitle}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Late Cretaceous]], ([[Cenomanian]]) <br>{{fossilrange|100.5|93.9}} | image = Holotype of Oxalaia quilombensis.PNG | image_caption = [[Holotype]] snout in multiple views | image_alt = Holotype snout fossil of ''Oxalaia'' in right lateral view, left lateral view, ventral view, and slightly oblique ventral view | taxon = Oxalaia | authority = [[Alexander Kellner|Kellner]] ''et al''., [[2011 in paleontology|2011]] | type_species = '''''Oxalaia quilombensis''''' | type_species_authority = Kellner ''et al''., 2011 |subdivision_ranks=|subdivision=| synonyms = * ''Oxalaia quilimboensis'' <small>Arden ''et al''., 2018 (''[[lapsus calami]]'')</small> }} '''''Oxalaia''''' was a large [[Predation|predatory]] [[dinosaur]]. It lived during the [[Late Cretaceous|Upper Cretaceous]] of what is now [[Brazil]], sometime between 100.5 to 93.9 million [[years]] ago. ''Oxalaia'' is known only from two bones of the [[skull]], which were discovered in 1999. The animal was named in 2011 by a group of Brazilian [[palaeontologists]]. It was a member of the [[Spinosauridae]] [[Family (biology)|family]], a group of [[crocodile]]-like [[theropod]] dinosaurs. Like other spinosaurids, ''Oxalaia'' had a long nose or [[wikt:snout|snout]] with [[Jaw|jaws]] and [[Tooth|teeth]] shaped to feed on [[fish]]. ''Oxalaia''<nowiki/>'s [[habitat]] was [[Tropics|tropical]], an area of large forests around which were dry [[Desert|deserts]]. ''Oxalaia'' shared this environment with many other animals, most of which are also known from other Cretaceous fossils discovered in [[Africa]]. It may also be synonomus with the [[Africa|African]] genus [[Spinosaurus]]<ref>{{Citation|last1=Smyth|first1=Robert S.H.|last2=Ibrahim|first2=Nizar|last3=Martill|first3=David M.|date=2020-10-08|title=Sigilmassasaurus is Spinosaurus: A reappraisal of African spinosaurines|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0195667120302068|journal=Cretaceous Research|language=en|volume=114|pages=104520|doi=10.1016/j.cr