Aquila chrysaetos simurgh
Appearance
Aquila chrysaetos simurgh Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Genus: | Aquila |
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Subspecies: | †A. c. simurgh
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Trinomial name | |
†Aquila chrysaetos simurgh Weesie, 1988
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Synonyms | |
Aquila 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.[1]
Ecology
It lived during the Pleistocene in Crete with Mammuthus creticus, the smallest mammoth known.
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