Aquila chrysaetos simurgh

Aquila chrysaetos simurgh; Temporal range: Late Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Accipitriformes
Family:	Accipitridae
Genus:	Aquila
Species:	A. chrysaetos
Subspecies:	†A. c. simurgh
Trinomial name
	†Aquila chrysaetos simurgh; Weesie, 1988
Synonyms
	Aquila simurgh

Aquila chrysaetos simurgh is an extinct subspecies of the widespread golden eagle. Its fossils are found in Crete; it was sometimes evaluated as a full species.^[1]

Ecology

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

References

^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-11-08.

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[1] "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-11-08.

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