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- ✓Beaked mouth, posture correct for an ornithischian
- ✓Whole animal visible in side view
- ✓Scene matches the period and the fossil site
- ✓No text, people or modern objects
Checked by Claude (AI) on Nov 2, 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 Iyuku, a herbivore Ornithischia dinosaur from Valanginian times (137.05–132.6 million years ago). Reference: Iyuku is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa. The type species is Iyuku raathi. Anatomy: beaked mouth, anatomically correct posture for an ornithischian. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in an Early Cretaceous landscape with conifers, cycads, ferns and rare early flowering plants, 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
Iyuku
There is no write-up for this dinosaur yet, but the scientific data below is complete.
Who lived alongside it
Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Iyuku (Kirkwood), 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
- Ornithischian (bird-hipped)
- Family
- Unknown
- When it lived
- 132.6–137.05 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Valanginian
- Named by
- Forster et al., 2022
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- South Africa
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata