Query academically referenced paleodata within your LLM

Working towards the complete, definitive source on every dinosaur genus: all 1,572 non-bird dinosaur genera recognised by the Paleobiology Database, including those known only from footprints and eggs.

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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.

How it works

Three steps, no new app

1Add OmnisauraConnect it to your assistant once, as you would any other connector.
2Ask as normalAsk about any dinosaur genus. Your assistant decides when to look something up.
3Get the receiptsAnswers come with their sources, a confidence level and what isn't known.

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.

You

When did T. rex live, where have its fossils been found, and who named it?

Assistant calls Omnisaura

get_genus({ "name": "T. rex" })

Assistant, from Omnisaura

Named by Osborn 1905 high
Described in H. F. Osborn (1905). Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21(14): 259–265. 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: Paleobiology Database (CC-BY-4.0), Natural History Museum Data Portal (CC0-1.0), Wikidata (CC0-1.0)Real Omnisaura data, published 2026-10-12. Hover a badge for the reason behind it.

What it can look up

Questions your assistant can ask

get_genusEverything about one genusIts facts with confidence, gaps and credits. For a genus without a profile yet, what the Paleobiology Database records about the name.
search_generaFind a nameBy scientific name, common name in any language, country or rock formation, including names not covered yet and older names that now sit under another genus.
find_generaWho lived when and whereGenera from a period, epoch or stage and a place, for example the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, or those known only from footprints or eggs.
did_they_meetCould two genera have met?Compares the ages of their fossils and the rock formations both are found in.

Also: who was alive at a given moment (alive_at), related genera (related_genera), the full list (list_genera) and what changed recently (recent_changes).

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.

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

833/1,572genera live now, out of all 1,572 the Paleobiology Database recognises (see every genus)

600,000+facts about dinosaurs, each traced to its source

Every release passes automated checks, and genuine disagreements between sources go to a human editor. More genera are added with every release.

On the web

Browse it yourself

The same data, as a reference site anyone can read at omnisaura.com.

Every genusAll the names, A to Z, with a page for each full profile.All genera Genus pagesEvery fact with its source, confidence and gaps.Tyrannosaurus, for example Map through timeFossil sites on the continents of each moment.Open the map

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