Query academically referenced paleodata within your LLM
Building the complete reference of current palaeontology: every one of the 1,572 non-bird dinosaur genera recognised by the Paleobiology Database, including those known from footprints and eggs.
105/1,572 genera Request preview accessOmnisaura is in private preview. See a real answer below.
What it is
A reference book you hand to your AI
An MCP server is like a reference book you give to your AI assistant. Ask a question, and it can answer from what it already knows, or look it up in the book.
Omnisaura is that book for palaeontology: a growing database of current dinosaur data, drawn from citable scientific sources, that your assistant can read and cite.
Why trust it
Answers you can check, not just read
- Beyond what your AI was trained onAn AI model only knows what was in its training data, and rarely says where a fact came from. Omnisaura gives it current, sourced reference data to answer from.
- Disagreements shown, not hiddenWhen sources disagree, the main answer is given and the alternatives are kept and flagged.
- Human-edited, with a paper trailA person rules on genuine conflicts between sources, and every ruling has a recorded reason.
- Says how sure it isEvery fact is rated high, medium or low confidence, with the reason. How we rate confidence.
- Credits built inEvery answer carries the source and licence it relies on, so attribution is never lost.
See it in action
A fact, with its receipt
A real Omnisaura answer: every fact carries a confidence level, and what isn't known is said out loud. Your assistant decides when to look something up.
- Named by Osborn 1905 high
- Lived Campanian to Maastrichtian, 83.6–66 million years ago high
- Fossils found in United States high, Canada medium, China low, Mexico low, Russia low
- Not known no source gives: type species, what it was named after; 12 fossil records are left out because their identification is uncertain
- Not covered size, diet and behaviour: Omnisaura says so instead of guessing
Sources
Built on open science
- Paleobiology Database (PBDB)Fossil occurrences, taxonomy and published references
- Natural History Museum, LondonCatalogued specimens from its collections
- WikidataStructured identifiers and cross-references
- Wikimedia CommonsOpenly licensed images, credited individually
Data is used under each source's licence, including CC BY 4.0 and CC0. Content without a usable licence is excluded.
Coverage
Where we are today
Every release passes automated checks, and genuine disagreements between sources go to a human editor. More genera are added with every release.
Coming soon
More ways to explore
- Public reference website
- Open dataset