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

Match with prompt

78% (7/9 items)

Where the image differs from the prompt

  • มือคว่ำเฉียงลง กรงเล็บชี้ลงไปข้างหน้าShould be: Palms facing each other, not turned down or dangling
  • กรงเล็บนิ้วโป้งไม่ใหญ่เด่นกว่านิ้วอื่นShould be: Strong arms with a huge curved thumb claw, long sturdy hind legs, an ordinary long tail
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  • ✓Bipedal, back horizontal, tail held straight out off the ground
  • ✕Palms facing each other, not turned down or danglingมือคว่ำเฉียงลง กรงเล็บชี้ลงไปข้างหน้า
  • ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
  • ✓Long, narrow crocodile-like snout, conical teeth, nostrils set back toward the eyes
  • ✓Low skin ridge on the back, highest over the hips, not a tall Spinosaurus sail
  • ✕Strong arms with a huge curved thumb claw, long sturdy hind legs, an ordinary long tailกรงเล็บนิ้วโป้งไม่ใหญ่เด่นกว่านิ้วอื่น
  • ✓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 Suchomimus, a carnivore Spinosauridae dinosaur from Aptian–Albian times (121.4–100.5 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. 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 long, narrow, crocodile-like snout with conical teeth and nostrils set far back near the eyes, NOT a deep tyrannosaur-like skull. Only a low ridge of skin along the back, highest over the hips, far lower than the sail of Spinosaurus. Reference: Suchomimus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Niger during the Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous period, 112 million years ago. The only known species is S. tenerensis, originally described in 1998 by paleontologist Paul Sereno and colleagues from several fossils discovered one year earlier in the Elrhaz Formation. Although these fossils come from multiple specimens, they represent one of the most anatomically well-documented spinosaurids. Anatomy: three main weight-bearing toes on each foot; strong arms with a huge curved claw on each thumb, long sturdy hind legs, an ordinary long tail. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a vast Early Cretaceous river floodplain in Niger, like the Elrhaz Formation, with conifers, ferns and horsetails along a river, 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

Suchomimus

Name meaning: Meaning "crocodile mimic", for its long, narrow crocodile-like snout.

Carnivore

📏 About 11 m long.

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Suchomimus was an Early Cretaceous spinosaur from Niger with a long, narrow snout full of small curved teeth, a big thumb claw and a low ridge along its back.

Fun facts

  • It was found in the Sahara Desert, which in its time was a wetland crossed by rivers.
  • It was a close relative of Baryonyx from England, and some scientists have suggested they belong in the same genus.

Who lived alongside it

Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Suchomimus (Elrhaz), 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
Spinosauridae
When it lived
100.5–121.4 million years ago
Geologic stages
Aptian – Albian
Named by
Sereno et al., 1998
Fossil occurrences
2 sites

Countries with fossils

  • Niger

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata