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- ✓Wide, low body with many close rows of small armor plates on the back and sides
- ✓Straight tapering tail with no club
- ✓A pair of long shoulder spines like a bull's hornsหนามไหล่ยื่นไปด้านหน้าข้างคอ
- ✓Reddish-brown on top, paler belly and sides
- ✓Short sturdy legs on all fours, small narrow beaked head
- ✓Whole animal visible in side view
- ✓Scene matches the period and the fossil site
- ✓No text, people or modern objects
Checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (checked item by item from the image) on Oct 31, 2026. The score is the share of checklist items the image gets right; it is not an expert scientific review.
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Scientifically accurate paleoart of Borealopelta, a herbivore Nodosauridae dinosaur from Aptian times (121.4–113.2 million years ago). A wide, low body covered on top and sides by many closely spaced rows of small bony armor plates. A pair of long spines sticking out forward and sideways from the shoulders like the horns of a bull. Reference: Borealopelta is an extinct genus of herbivorous nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of what is today Alberta, Canada. It contains a single species, B. markmitchelli, named in 2017 by Caleb Brown and colleagues from a well-preserved specimen known as the Suncor nodosaur. Discovered at an oil sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the specimen is remarkable for being among the best-preserved dinosaur fossils of its size ever found. Anatomy: a straight, tapering tail with NO tail club; reddish-brown on the back, paler on the belly and sides (countershading); short, sturdy legs, walking on four legs, a small narrow head with a beak. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a coastal Early Cretaceous conifer forest near the sea in what is now Alberta, Canada, with ferns and cycads on the ground, no grass. Natural history museum illustration style, realistic textures and natural daylight, muted natural colors. No text, no labels, no humans, no modern objects.
Facts in the prompt come from Wikipedia (en) and Paleobiology Database
Borealopelta
Name meaning: From Greek, meaning "northern shield".
📏 About 5.5 m long and around 1.3 tonnes.
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In Drifting Continents, guess where its fossils were found on the ancient Earth · opens the game at globe.dinocodex.com
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Borealopelta was a nodosaur (an armoured dinosaur without a tail club) from Early Cretaceous Canada, with a pair of big shoulder spikes and bony armour covering its back.
Fun facts
- It was found by chance in an oil-sands mine in Alberta in 2011, so well preserved that its body shape and skin look almost like a statue.
- Chemical traces in its skin show it was reddish-brown, darker on the back than the belly: camouflage against predators.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Ornithischian (bird-hipped)
- Family
- Nodosauridae
- When it lived
- 113.2–121.4 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Aptian
- Named by
- Brown et al., 2017
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- Canada
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata