The three Cretaceous oceanic large igneous provinces—the Kerguelen, Ontong Java, and Caribbean large igneous provinces—have widely been regarded as the triggers of the two Cretaceous global oceanic anoxic events. The premise for ascribing a causal relationship between a large igneous province and an oceanic anoxic event is their synchronicity. However, due to the detrimental effect of seawater alteration of commonly used dating materials in oceanic basalts, the ages that have been published for oceanic large igneous provinces are not all robust. Here we compile all published dating results of oceanic large igneous provinces and assess the robustness of each age data. The results show that although the quality-filtered robust ages for the large igneous provinces can provide evidence for the existence of contemporaneous eruptions with the oceanic anoxic events, the eruptive duration and tempo of the large igneous provinces remain unclear. More age data are needed to constrain the possible causal relationship between the three large igneous provinces and the two Cretaceous global oceanic anoxic events.