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AI imageCreated with GPT Image 2 by OpenAI on Nov 3, 2026

Match with prompt

100% (8/8 items)

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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 dangling
  • ✓Three weight-bearing toes on each foot
  • ✓Large predator about 10 m long, long low skull, strong 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 (AI) on Nov 3, 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 Torvosaurus, a carnivore Megalosauridae dinosaur from Callovian–Tithonian times (165.3–143.1 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 large predator about 10 meters long with a long, low skull and strong arms with three clawed fingers, skin of small scales. Reference: Torvosaurus is a genus of large megalosaurine theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 165 to 146.5 million years ago during the Callovian to Tithonian ages of the late Middle and Late Jurassic period in what is now Colorado, Portugal, Germany, and possibly England, Spain, Tanzania, and Uruguay. It contains two currently recognized species, Torvosaurus tanneri and Torvosaurus gurneyi, plus a third unnamed species from Germany. Anatomy: three main weight-bearing toes on each foot. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a Jurassic landscape with conifers, cycads, ginkgoes and ferns, 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

Torvosaurus

Carnivore
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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 Torvosaurus (Morrison, Lourinhã), 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
Megalosauridae
When it lived
143.1–165.3 million years ago
Geologic stages
Callovian – Tithonian
Named by
Galton and Jensen, 1979
Fossil occurrences
28 sites

Countries with fossils

  • China
  • Germany
  • Portugal
  • Tanzania
  • United States
  • Uruguay

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata