• ✓Small, wingspan about 1 m
• ✓Long narrow straight snout, many small cone-shaped teeth in the front half, low soft crest on the head
• ✓Long neck
• ✓Wings of skin stretched from a very long fourth finger to the ankle, three small clawed fingers at the front of each wing; not bat or feathered wings
• ✓Very short tail
• ✓Head, neck and body covered in short hair-like fuzz (pycnofibres), not scales and not bird feathers
• ✓Whole body seen from the side, wings fully spread
• ✕Flying over a shallow tropical lagoon with low islands, like Late Jurassic SolnhofenThe trees on the islands look like palms, which did not exist yet in the Jurassic
• ✓Only this one species; no dinosaurs, text, people or modern objects

Checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (checked item by item from the image) on Nov 4, 2026. The score is the share of checklist items the image gets right; it is not an expert scientific review.

Prompt used to create the image

Scientifically accurate paleoart of Pterodactylus, a small pterosaur (a flying reptile, not a dinosaur) from the Late Jurassic (about 150 million years ago) of Solnhofen, Bavaria. Anatomy: small, wingspan about 1 m; a long, narrow, straight snout with many small cone-shaped teeth in the front half of the jaws, and a low soft-tissue crest along the top of the head; a long neck; wings are membranes of skin stretched from a hugely elongated fourth finger back to the ankle, with three small clawed fingers free at the front of each wing; not bat wings, not feathered wings; a very short tail; head, neck and body covered in short hair-like pycnofibres (fuzz), not scales and not bird feathers. Full body seen from the side and slightly below, wings fully spread, whole animal visible, flying low over a warm, shallow tropical lagoon with low scrubby islands, like Late Jurassic Solnhofen. Natural history museum illustration style, realistic textures and natural daylight, muted natural colors. Only this one species; no dinosaurs, no text, no labels, no humans, no boats, no modern objects.

Facts in the prompt come from Wikipedia (en) and Paleobiology Database