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AI imageCreated with GPT Image 2 by OpenAI on Oct 31, 2026

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100% (9/9 items)

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  • ✓Bipedal, back horizontal, tail held straight out off the groundหลังขนานพื้น คอยาวชูขึ้น
  • ✓Mouth closed, lips covering the teeth so none are visible
  • ✓Palms facing each other, not turned down or danglingมือยกไปข้างหน้า นิ้วงอขึ้น ไม่ห้อย
  • ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
  • ✓Small, very slender predator about 3 m long, long narrow pointed head, long S-curved neck
  • ✓Arms with three clawed fingers
  • ✓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 Coelophysis, a carnivore Coelophysidae dinosaur from the Late Triassic, Norian–Rhaetian (about 215–201 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. Hands held tucked in near the chest with the palms facing inward toward each other, like clapping, claws curving inward and forward. NOT hanging down, NOT palms-down, NOT claws pointing at the ground. A small, very slender, lightly built predator about 3 meters long with a long, narrow, pointed head and a long S-curved neck. Reference: Coelophysis is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaurs that lived approximately 215 to 201.4 million years ago during the late Triassic period from the middle Norian to Rhaetian age in what is now the southwestern United States. Megapnosaurus was once considered to be a species within this genus, but this interpretation has been challenged and the genus Megapnosaurus is now considered valid. Anatomy: three main weight-bearing toes on each foot; arms with three clawed fingers. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a Late Triassic river floodplain like the Chinle Formation of New Mexico, with tall conifers, ferns and horsetails, no grass and no flowering plants. 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

Coelophysis

Name meaning: From Greek, meaning "hollow form", for its light, hollow bones.

Carnivore

📏 About 3 m long but only around 20 kg, lighter than a primary-school child.

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Find it in a game

Coelophysis was a slender Late Triassic predator with a long neck, a narrow head, small serrated teeth and long hind legs for running fast.

Fun facts

  • At Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, hundreds of Coelophysis skeletons were found in a single layer, perhaps killed together by a flood or drought.
  • A Coelophysis skull flew on the Space Shuttle to the Mir space station in 1998, making it the second dinosaur in space.

Who lived alongside it

Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Coelophysis (Chinle), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

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
Coelophysidae
When it lived
192.9–227.3 million years ago
Geologic stages
Norian – Sinemurian
Named by
Cope, 1889
Fossil occurrences
26 sites

Countries with fossils

  • United States

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata