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89% (8/9 items)
Where the image differs from the prompt
- Hands dangle with claws pointing downShould be: Palms facing each other, not turned down or dangling
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- ✓Bipedal, back horizontal, tail held straight out off the ground
- ✓Mouth closed, lips covering the teeth so none are visible
- ✕Palms facing each other, not turned down or danglingHands dangle with claws pointing down
- ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
- ✓Long, low, narrow skull, not broad and deep like T. rex
- ✓Huge, 12–13 m long, short three-fingered arms, small scales
- ✓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.
Prompt used to create the image
Scientifically accurate paleoart of Carcharodontosaurus, a carnivore Carcharodontosauridae dinosaur from the Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous (about 100–94 million years ago). Bipedal with the back held roughly horizontal and the tail held straight out behind for balance, never dragging on the ground. NOT standing upright like a kangaroo. Mouth closed with all teeth fully hidden behind scaly lips, like a monitor lizard. NO visible teeth. A long, low, narrow skull with blade-like teeth, NOT the broad deep skull of Tyrannosaurus. Reference: Carcharodontosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in Northwest Africa from about 100 to 94 million years ago during the Cenomanian age of the late Cretaceous period. The genus was first described in 1925 by French paleontologists Charles Depéret and Justin Savornin as Megalosaurus saharicus, based on two fossil teeth discovered in Algeria, which are now lost. A partial skeleton was discovered in Egypt as early as 1914 by crews of German paleontologist Ernst Stromer, although he did not report the find until 1931. Based on this specimen as well as the teeth previously described by Depéret and Savornin, Stromer established the genus Carcharodontosaurus, with C. saharicus as the only species. Anatomy: hands held with palms facing each other (not pronated, not palms-down, not dangling); three main weight-bearing toes on each foot; a huge animal about 12–13 meters long, short arms with three clawed fingers, powerful hind legs, skin of small scales. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a wide Late Cretaceous river system in North Africa, like the Kem Kem beds of Morocco, on a sandy riverbank with ferns and conifers, 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
Carcharodontosaurus
Name meaning: Meaning "shark-toothed lizard", because its flat, serrated teeth looked like a great white shark's.
📏 About 12.5 m long, close to Tyrannosaurus.
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Carcharodontosaurus was a giant predator from mid-Cretaceous North Africa that shared its world with Spinosaurus. It had a long head and blade-like teeth for slicing flesh.
Fun facts
- Like Spinosaurus, its first fossils were destroyed in the 1944 bombing of Munich; those studied today were found later in Morocco and Niger.
- North Africa then had several giant predators living side by side, Carcharodontosaurus, Spinosaurus and others, and scientists still wonder how one ecosystem fed so many.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Carcharodontosaurus (Ifezouane, Elrhaz, Baharîje, Echkar), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

Spinosaurus

Ouranosaurus

Erectopus

Aegyptosaurus

Deltadromeus

Bahariasaurus

Nigersaurus

Spinostropheus
Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.
Scientific details
- Classification
- Theropod (two-legged predators)
- Family
- Carcharodontosauridae
- When it lived
- 72.2–143.1 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Berriasian – Campanian
- Named by
- Stromer, 1931
- Fossil occurrences
- 44 sites
Countries with fossils
- Brazil
- Algeria
- Egypt
- Morocco
- Niger
- Tunisia
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata