Aquila chrysaetos simurgh

Aquila chrysaetos simurgh is an extinct subspecies of the widespread golden eagle. Fossils are found in Crete; it was sometimes evaluated as a full species.

Aquila chrysaetos simurgh
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Aquila
Species:
Subspecies:
A. c. simurgh
Trinomial name
Aquila chrysaetos simurgh
Weesie, 1988
Synonyms

Aquila simurgh

Ecology

It lived during the Pleistocene in Crete with Mammuthus creticus, the smallest mammoth known.


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