Change a Dinosaur Name Game!

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It's simple, and there are no winners or losers.

Just pick a name of a dinosaur, find out the meaning of the name, and change it to something else you find more suitable for the animal, along with it's translated meaning, along with the reason why you chose the name.

For example:

Oviraptor - "Egg thief"

Changed to........

Rostromovilophus - "Egg beak crest"

(Because these are it's 3 most defining features).

Another:

Protoceratops - "First horned face"

Changed to........

Neosceratops - "Young horned face"

(Because Protoceratops is a basal genus and has very neotenous features in my opinion, such as the small size, large limb proportions and the lack of large horns etc).

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"Tyrannosaurus Rex"
(Tyrant lizard king)

new name:
"Overhypedid spinosaurus-is-coolersaur"