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Support Group for Saurians robbed of their names

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What do Syntarsus, Microceratops, Mononychus, Campylognathus, Ingenia, Nemegtia, Diceratops, Titanopteryx and Criocephalus all have in common? All of these names belong to invertebrates (most of them beetles), but you may know them better as dinosaurs that had to be renamed.

So the names you´ll have to be looking for are Megapnosaurus, Microceratus, Mononykus, Campylognathoides, Ajancingenia, Nemegtomaia, Diceratops Nedoceratops juvenile Triceratops, Arambourgiania and Criocephalosaurus.

I´ve had this idea for like a year, but only now bothered to research enough prehistoric species whose names were preoccupied by invertebrates to fill a suport group. Of course Syntarsus/Megapnosaurus is the one in the center because he´s the one about which paleontologists are the most pissed off (the three entymologists who pointed out Syntarsus was already a beetle genus just renamed the dinosaur themselves and Megapnosaurus derogatively means "big dead lizard"). The therapsid Criocephalosaurus was a last-minute addition to fill the empty space on the right side.
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Who would do such a thing?