Talk:Attercopus

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A fact from Attercopus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 December 2008, and was viewed approximately 4,941 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the extinct arachnid Attercopus was once considered as the world's oldest spider?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/December.

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The link in ref. 3 is not working. I have found the article at https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/8336/Selden_A%20spider%20and%20other%20arachnids%20from%20the%20Devonian%20of%20New%20York.pdf?sequence=1 but I am not sure about whether any link is fine, or if it has to be an "official" one. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 04:30, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

attercop vs. attercopus

I was redirected to 'attercopus' when I was looking for 'attercop' so I was wondering whether it might not be appropriate to state in the article that the word 'attercop' is not only a British dialect word for spider, but has also been immortalized in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, Chapter 7 "Spiders and Flies." 98.14.15.215 (talk) 06:06, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I very much doubt that anyone looking for the meaning of "attercop" should come to this article! Maybe a headnote is the answer. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:52, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]