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Attercopus is an
extinct genus of arachnids,
containing one
species Attercopus fimbriunguis,
known from
flattened cuticle fossils from the
Panther Mountain...
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Uraraneida lack.
Dunlop et al. (2015)
accepted two species:
Attercopus Selden & Shear, 1991
Attercopus fimbriunguis (Shear,
Selden & Rolfe, 1987) – Devonian;...
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Palaeotarbus jerami, from
about 420 million
years ago in the
Silurian period.
Attercopus fimbriunguis, from 386 million
years ago in the
Devonian period, bears...
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segmented abdomen, as well as
eight legs and a pair of pedipalps.
Attercopus fimbriunguis, from 386 million
years ago in the
Devonian period, bears...
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spiders but
unlike them, it has a long thin tail,
similar to its
relative Attercopus, it is
known from the
mostly complete holotype PIN 4909/12. It is about...
- ago. At one stage,
Attercopus was
claimed as the
oldest fossil spider which lived 380 million
years ago
during the Devonian.
Attercopus was
placed as the...
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suggested the
relationships shown in the
cladogram below. (At the time,
Attercopus was
thought to be a spider; it is now
considered to
belong to a related...
- for its
fossil arthropods preserved as
flattened cuticles,
including Attercopus and Dracochela. Eye
fragments of
supposed archaeognathan affinities, and...
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segmented abdomen, as well as
eight legs and a pair of pedipalps.
Attercopus fimbriunguis, from 386 million
years ago in the
Devonian period, bears...
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spiriferoides †Atops †Atrypa †Atrypa
reticularis †
Attercopus †
Attercopus fimbriunguis †
Attercopus fimbriungus †Aulatornoceras †Aulopora †Aulopora microbuccinata...
