Talk:Comptonia columbiana

A fact from Comptonia columbiana appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the almost 50-million-year-old fossil leaves of Comptonia columbiana (example pictured) preserve evidence of moth feeding?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 11:00, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Comptonia columbiana leaf with insect feeding

... that 49.5 million year old Comptonia columbiana (pictured) leaves preserve evidence of moth feeding? Source:Labanderia 2002
- ALT1:... that Comptonia columbiana (pictured) leaf fossils have been found from Central British Columbia south to Idaho and Oregon? Source: refs in Distribution paragraph

Reviewed: Chorizopora brongniartii

Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Self-nominated at 16:08, 19 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

size and age ok, free of copyvio, fully referenced, first hook about moths is interesting...I just think the article is a little less conclusive about the moth than the hook (maybe add "suggestive of.." or something to hook...?) QPQ done Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:37, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are you uncertain of the Moth family, or of the cf Antispila part? Labandeira 2002 is a little more open with the wording when talking about the family but still give a fairly confident assessment, and Sohn et al 2012 (which has Labandeira as a coauthor) used a more confident wording and again emphasized cf Antispila.--Kev min § 15:28, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ach, my bad - was seeing the uncertainty in the wrong segment - good to go Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]